Go Phish! Stupid is, as Stupid Does!
We fondly remember the character Forest Gump, played by Tom Hanks, saying several clever sayings, including “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you will get next” and “Stupid is as Stupid does.” Or at least we think that’s where we first heard those comments.
Anway, phishing emails are aimed at folks who aren’t properly self-educated about the Internet, or are too greedy to know when something’s too good to be true. We delete them ourselves by the dozens every day, some days more than others, when they make it past our anti-spam filters on the server.
Remembering simple things, like no legit ISP, Bank, etc. will ask for your password via email. Anyone getting a letter from an unknown person, telling them $$ are waiting for them if they only provide their personal bank account info, etc., ought to know it’s bogus. Anyone getting an email from “your webmaster” saying your email was being suspended due to suspicious activity from a foreign country ought to know better.
This Blog posting is mostly a rhetorical question, but many of my visits to customers are caused by spyware or viruses crashing their computers, or causing them to slow way down. Most of those caught with such infections, usually ran free anti-virus software, didn’t keep their paid anti-virus software renewed, or clicked on some offer to install free software on their computer that they didn’t need.