Hlleo,
a%S en Angineer, Eye no i d0'tn haff th3 best ski||s at riTin. i'm also willing to note that there are those in any company that do. Still, i can't believe that yesterday, four people (all of whom i respect) recieved the following type message and asked if it was legit. (Steve, you're not one of them. You were the fifth instance of the message.)
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regi?tarts?ions, pl?ae?se cli?kc? on t?ih?s l?ni?k and com?etelp? code v?re?ification pr?sseco?:
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Suffice to say that no matter how evil you may find a given company, or how good you've heard the office parties are, they would NEVER send out an email that mangled. It's a little like getting a 13 year old guy showing up at your door and saying "Hilo, Me aM w|fe of you. Keys to Car may i h4ve? i live aT {your address}"
i swear, people don't just need firewalls, anti-virus, and spyware traps, they need a live in cynic.
With a cattle prod.
i, on the other hand, disabled HTML and saw the confusing pile of characters simulated above, and was able to spot it as a phishing scheme right off the bat. This, i'd note, gives me yet another reason to strip HTML from my mail, regardless of however many requests i get from marketing newsletters asking me to "upgrade" my mail client.
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