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Old February 29th 04, 04:06 PM
Gary S.
 
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On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 15:13:24 +0000, Bill
wrote:

In message , Roger Halstead
writes
I always wondered is any one ever fell for them.

They do, a perfectly sane and reasonable colleague of mine was very
pleased that Microsoft had taken the time to email him at work about
their new security patch. He opened it.


The term for this is "social engineering", a fancy name for conning
someone.

Happy trails,
Gary (net.yogi.bear)
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