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Friday, November 24, 2006

As online shopping grows, so do dangers - Yahoo! News

As online shopping grows, so do dangers - Yahoo! News
Good enough reason to manage your parents' PayPal/eBay/online banking accounts? Yea...for me anyways. It gets to be a pain in the ass, but with the likes of e-mail forwarding and modifying the From: and Reply-To: headers in gmail, it makes this easy.

Though, I'm gradually sending my parents on their own (lol...sounds awkward don't it), I've set them up with OpenDNS (which partners with PhishTank) dns setup, but yea, I still wouldn't want them to fall for any of the number of PayPal/eBay phishing scams I receive...

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