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> Phishing under the name of Wikipedia - The H
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post Fri 2nd July 2010, 6:09pm
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Phishing under the name of [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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A large number of spam emails are currently prompting their recipients to verify an alleged Wikipedia account by clicking on a link that appears to point to ...



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post Fri 2nd July 2010, 7:01pm
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I got one of these. Struck me as odd since the account name, "kelly", was (a) in lower case (which Wikipoopia doesn't allow). (b) was registered in like 2002, long before I got there, and © was sent to my gimp.org address, which I haven't used in ten years and which is almost entirely spam these days. So I figured it was phishery.
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