-an HEIR to the HORNBOOK-

Greatest Hits and Missives
by Benedict Monk

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

-Hunting and Phishing-

So this web-savvy creature creates a mock up of a bank's web page, arranges for a plausible url, and finally mass-mails a security warning begging the recipient to follow the link and input their account information.

After putting in all that work mimicking the web page, why blow it on a horrifically misspelled and nearly incomprehensible e-mail?

Doesn't make sense. All of those underemployed humanities majors out there, and they can't afford a decent copywriter?

They're not alone, of course. A heavily degreed job-hunter presented me with a resume that wouldn't have passed the muster at the lowliest of temp agencies (and believe me, I've worked for the lowliest). Great qualifications, maddeningly vague message - as if MBA stood for Masters in Bureaucratic Areality.

If that really exists, I'd like to get one.

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