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geekchickToday is Pungenday, day 9 in the season of Bureaucracy, 3269.
Heh. Nice. I got three copies of a spam telling me my Citibank account was going to be suspended, and I should click here to prevent that from happening. That's all well and good, except I don't have any Citibank accounts to suspend, and I'm pretty sure that Citibank doesn't send mail from Prodigy addresses anyway. It's almost pretty slick, the URL when you pull it up in the browser (after substituting postmaster@127.0.0.1 for your actual address in the URL, of course) shows as www.citibank.com, but the encoded bit afterwards sends you off to a web site in China, which asks for your full name and the first four digits of your Citibank ATM card. Uh. Yeah. So I send off a note to webmaster@citibank.com to give them a copy for their investigation (They *will* investigate, right? Yeah, I'm sure they will. *cough*) because they make it impossible to find an email address for someone more appropriate...and it bounces. Oh look, googling turns up their response to someone who called to get the address for their security group: basically it was "Yeah, yeah, we know, just delete the email." Y'know what? Screw 'em, I tried. I despise Citibank anyway. And to be completely blunt about it, I think anyone stupid enough to enter bank account details or account passwords in a web site, especially one that obviously isn't even using https://, after blithely clicking away on a link in their email without looking into it a little more carefully probably deserves what they get anyway.
(This is my new "stompy" icon. I love this picture.)
Heh. Nice. I got three copies of a spam telling me my Citibank account was going to be suspended, and I should click here to prevent that from happening. That's all well and good, except I don't have any Citibank accounts to suspend, and I'm pretty sure that Citibank doesn't send mail from Prodigy addresses anyway. It's almost pretty slick, the URL when you pull it up in the browser (after substituting postmaster@127.0.0.1 for your actual address in the URL, of course) shows as www.citibank.com, but the encoded bit afterwards sends you off to a web site in China, which asks for your full name and the first four digits of your Citibank ATM card. Uh. Yeah. So I send off a note to webmaster@citibank.com to give them a copy for their investigation (They *will* investigate, right? Yeah, I'm sure they will. *cough*) because they make it impossible to find an email address for someone more appropriate...and it bounces. Oh look, googling turns up their response to someone who called to get the address for their security group: basically it was "Yeah, yeah, we know, just delete the email." Y'know what? Screw 'em, I tried. I despise Citibank anyway. And to be completely blunt about it, I think anyone stupid enough to enter bank account details or account passwords in a web site, especially one that obviously isn't even using https://, after blithely clicking away on a link in their email without looking into it a little more carefully probably deserves what they get anyway.
(This is my new "stompy" icon. I love this picture.)
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Date: 2003-08-16 10:26 am (UTC)