Dear Barklays customer,Anyone can play. If they're not pretending to be a bank with whom you may or may not have ann account, they can pretend to be eBay or Paypal. But today I got my first phish from someone purporting to be ... Amazon Inc.
We has notised some funny activity on your account please click the link. Below to verify your identity wiv us.
Sinceerely,
Barklays customer relations (no reely)
P.S. Oh what your not a Barklays customer? sorry we ment HSBC please click the link anyway its all the same to us
Someone wants my Amazon details?
What exactly are they going to do with this fraudulently obtained information? Buy books?
I'm almost inclined to say "be my guest".
Almost.
Amazon and many other on-line stores to remember you credit card details by default to save you the hassle of typing them in again. If someone hacked into your account then they could use it to buy all sorts of expensive things and you'll still be landed with the bill.
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