Comments on: Fraud and Spear-Phishing Attempts… http://thoughtfullaw.com/2008/04/16/fraud-and-spear-phishing-attempts/ Empowering lawyers to anticipate the changes, realize the opportunities, face the challenges and embrace the expanding possibilities of the application of practice management concepts to the practice of law in innovative ways that provide service excellence. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:40:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: victor louis http://thoughtfullaw.com/2008/04/16/fraud-and-spear-phishing-attempts/#comment-2171 victor louis Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:19:17 +0000 http://thoughtfullaw.com/2008/04/16/fraud-and-spear-phishing-attempts/#comment-2171 fake subpoena spear-phishing It is kind of a whaling attack targeting big fishes in corporate offices like CEO’s, top executives and managers. “This is one of the best phish e-mails I've seen in the past 6 years” quoted by Mr. Steve Kirsch, a well known Silicon Valley entrepreneur Remember, that it is not legal to send subpoena via emails unless it is agreed by the people. Also All US Federal courts have URLs of the form “courtname.uscourts.gov” and not in the form “uscourts.com” mentioned in email. So Beware of these kinds of mails. The Abaca Email Protection Gateway (http://abaca.com/) service was the only service I know that quarantined these emails. fake subpoena spear-phishing

It is kind of a whaling attack targeting big fishes in corporate offices like CEO’s, top executives and managers.

“This is one of the best phish e-mails I’ve seen in the past 6 years” quoted by Mr. Steve Kirsch, a well known Silicon Valley entrepreneur

Remember, that it is not legal to send subpoena via emails unless it is agreed by the people. Also All US Federal courts have URLs of the form “courtname.uscourts.gov” and not in the form
“uscourts.com” mentioned in email. So Beware of these kinds of mails. The Abaca Email Protection Gateway (http://abaca.com/) service was the only service I know that quarantined these emails.

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