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Comments on: Phishing For Trouble https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/07/phishing-for-trouble/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:53:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/07/phishing-for-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-30080 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:53:47 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/07/phishing-for-trouble/#comment-30080 The Federal government isn’t set up for this. You can file a report with the FBI, but it won’t do much good.

That’s why operations like PhishTank exist – to do the job the government should be doing.

]]> By: sandra https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/07/phishing-for-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-30079 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:11:39 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/07/phishing-for-trouble/#comment-30079 I have just tried to send the latest IRS ’email’ that they owe me money (yeh, sure!), along with the full header, to abuse@irs.gov. …they have refused my email….this is their message, sender as Postmaster@irs.gov, and subject Delivery Status Notification (failed)

this is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

abuse@irs.gov

NOW who should I email?

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/07/phishing-for-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-29286 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:23:26 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/07/phishing-for-trouble/#comment-29286 There are a lot of people with entirely too much trust, OWL. If there weren’t, as you say, they wouldn’t bother doing this.

]]> By: oldwhitelady https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/07/phishing-for-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-29283 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:14:12 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/07/phishing-for-trouble/#comment-29283 I hope people realize that they wouldn’t be getting an IRS letter in their email (or I hope that’s not how they arrive). I wouldn’t be following whatever link is embedded in the letter, either. I wonder how many people do? It must work, else why send them?

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/07/phishing-for-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-29270 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:19:17 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/07/phishing-for-trouble/#comment-29270 In the old days when we had a government everything concerned with the Treasury department went to the Secret Service, but they have been rolled into DHS, so I may give the FBI a call.

]]> By: Scorpio https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/07/phishing-for-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-29267 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:45:20 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/07/phishing-for-trouble/#comment-29267 It is still the FBI to whom you report e-mail fraud. I called the local office once when I got an *FBI recruiting * scam in my mail. That especially interested them!.

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/07/phishing-for-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-29253 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:05:33 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/07/phishing-for-trouble/#comment-29253 The Cayman Islands spend a lot of money on anti-IRS defenses.

]]> By: whig https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/07/phishing-for-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-29252 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:50:40 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/07/phishing-for-trouble/#comment-29252 Wasn’t there some theory around that the IRS was chartered in the Cayman Islands or something?

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