The Anonymous Widower

Alliance and Leicester Building Society

This building society has now been rebranded as part of the Santander Group.

But the spammers seem to be unaware of this change and they still keep sending me masses of e-mails trying to get me to give away my login details.  It’s pointless anyway as I’ve never had an account at the bank or its parent.

On the subject of phishing spam, I’ve been watching it for about ten years now and it’s hardly changed in the wording and layout.  So of the billions the crooks send out any day, how many actually reach a sucker, who is prepared to open their web site.  On one today, I tried to open the link and the crooks web site had been taken down.

Hopefully, there must come a day, when the crooks give up and go away? But we don’t seem to be trhere yet!  I don’t seem to have read of any prosecutions of phishers either.  Surely, the banks are hoping for more than that the crooks give up?

On the other hand, today the Americans have swapped the Russian spies, when they should have prosecuted them! So is it now the policy of governments to only arrest those that have committed minor crimes?

July 9, 2010 - Posted by | Computing | , ,

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