[ale] New style of email attack?

[Bryan L. Gay]

Same here for the most part - I use unique email addresses for each
contact, but I've been getting more and more spam phone calls, and the
mail is mostly junk.
Even the Dr's office tries to call me to confirm things with a
non-human. I say "I don't talk to bots" and hang up.

Do business with me like I'm human.

On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 9:15 AM DJPfulio--- via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
> Were any of those emails available on a smartphone?  That's a much easier target to harvest contacts.
>
> And don't assume that small contractors are very secure. That would be the exception.
>
> The way I deal with these things is to insist that all business happens using snail-mail and voice calls.
>
> I don't text or email with businesses.  That completely removes the need to worry about any of these sorts of attacks.
>
> That, and I setup a different email alias for each new company, if they insist on having an email, but I'm very, very, clear that nothing official should be sent in that way and that I don't read those emails.  They make a note in my account - or at least claim they do.  Dropped an Natural Gas supplier when they tried to force me to paperless billing.  I don't do work that way.
>
> I suspect most people won't choose to make the same trade-offs, but it is possible.
>
>
>
> On 5/3/22 20:52, Neal Rhodes via Ale wrote:
> > We've seen two instances of what might look like a new flavor of
> > phishing attack.
> >
> > My wife got an email ostensibly from a local HVAC contractor we have
> > used in the past, asking her to click on a link to view an RFP and
> > see if she wants to work with them on it.  She knew enough to smell a
> > rat and delete it.
> >
> > And today, I got an email from a campground in Canada where I made a
> > reservation, asking for me to buy an Amazon Gift card for their
> > family 'cause they had a heart attack, and they will pay me back.
> > In that case, the reply address was XXXXXXX at outlook.com, when in fact
> > the real emails from the park were sent from
> > XXXXXXX at somethingsomething.ca.
> >
> > It's like some attack is floating around which just harvests
> > combinations of To/From email addresses, and they blast out various
> > attempts to fool people.
> >
> > I've only seen a couple like that.  Do I just not get out much?
> >
> > Is this ringing a bell?
> >
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