A Phishing Trip No One Wants to Take

March 20, 2013

I received a rather interesting email from my mom this weekend. There were no words, just a hyperlink to a website promoting a weight-loss supplement called Raspberry Ultra Drops.  Either my mom was trying to tell me something or her email had been compromised–again.  Since there were no words in the email, which is very odd for her, and the hyperlink consisted of random nonsensical characters, I suspected the latter.  As you can see from this fraud alert, http://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/article/2013/1/9/raspberry-ultra-drops-to-help-your-weight-drop-spam-email-and-fake-websites/, I was right. Continue reading “A Phishing Trip No One Wants to Take”