Getting Phish'd
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We get tons of different attacks via our various email addresses for billing. We get more emails from fake PayPal password recovery, updating account info, etc than we get from actual PayPal.
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@tonyshowoff but these are different than those other phishing scams that you can tell are completely fake. These are detailed down to the very person who signs off on the wire transfers. The one we had here knew the name of our president, ceo, cfo, vp of finance and controller and had crafted the emails to look like it was being sent from the cfo to the controller (who signs off on the wire transfers). The email address that was being used was once again .co and not .com. They hid the email header information so these guys are really good. Using a real bank account that was detailed enough to get the name on the account, account number, routing number (which i know is easy to find). Whoever is doing this does their homework.
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It's called spear-phishing.
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@david.wiese We get ones that are addressed to our two accountants though is what I was referencing, not just the obvious ones, their names too. Which is unusual because these email addresses are not public and do not contain their names. It made me wonder if PayPal got hacked or what a while ago.
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@tonyshowoff said:
@david.wiese We get ones that are addressed to our two accountants though is what I was referencing, not just the obvious ones, their names too. Which is unusual because these email addresses are not public and do not contain their names. It made me wonder if PayPal got hacked or what a while ago.
This is precisely what makes it spear-phishing. The would-be thieves do their homework and everything they can to make the communication look as real as possible so someone just does what it says.
If they spend 20 hours on one email and get you to send hundreds of thousands of dollars, that's a pretty great payday!
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@Dashrender I'm just saying we have a similar problem and it's really bizarre, and we go through a lot to keep much of our company operations hidden, not because we're the mob or anything, but because adult entertainment gets a lot of BS
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@tonyshowoff said:
@Dashrender I'm just saying we have a similar problem and it's really bizarre, and we go through a lot to keep much of our company operations hidden, not because we're the mob or anything, but because adult entertainment gets a lot of BS
Considering how much money there is there, that makes you an even larger target.
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@Dashrender said:
Considering how much money there is there, that makes you an even larger target.
You're telling me, we're #3-4-ish on the web as far as adult entertainment goes, and it wasn't a problem for a while, but over the last year it's gotten steadily worse.
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@tonyshowoff said:
@Dashrender said:
Considering how much money there is there, that makes you an even larger target.
You're telling me, we're #3-4-ish on the web as far as adult entertainment goes, and it wasn't a problem for a while, but over the last year it's gotten steadily worse.
I'd be okay if they took all the money out of those kind's of companies. (I personally think they should be illegal anyway).
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@thecreativeone91 said:
I'd be okay if they took all the money out of those kind's of companies. (I personally think they should be illegal anyway).
Pornography? Well, then you get into grey areas of art vs pornography, etc. Full disclosure, I've never been big into porn at all, it's just never been a thing for me, what happened was I realised an opportunity to make money when YouTube stopped allowing adult content (or actually started policing it, whatever happened) and took advantage of it.
