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TaleWgnDg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-22-04 10:18 AM
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Did you fall for this phishing con game?
Edited on Fri Oct-22-04 10:19 AM by TaleWgnDg
Were you naive enough to fall for this phishing con game?
Did you receive this bogus stuff and respond to it?

"Phishing may have hit Google users
Indo-Asian News Service
New York, Friday, October 22, 2004

"Internet search giant Google's aficionados may just have lost some vital information that could hurt their wallet!

"Hackers exploiting a flaw in Google's desktop search tool launched a week back could have illegally obtained critical data of users like credit card information, said a highly rated Internet security watchdog, securityfocus.com.

"The flaw -- which Google finally plugged on Wednesday -- might have made vulnerable the highly trusted search engine's Google Desktop to phishing -- the Internet fraud of using spoofed-up emails and web pages to persuade users to part with critical information."

read more at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1070459,0003.htm

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