House o' Shame: Amtrak

[Perry E. Metzger]

Steve Bellovin documents on his blog a recent attempt by Amtrak to
teach its customers to be phishing victims:

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2008-02/2008-02-13.html

My comments:

"Phish someone, and you inconvenience him for a week.
 Teach a man to be phished, and you screw him for the rest of his life."
                --me

I got the exact same email from Amtrak. It is pretty disappointing to
me, but sadly not surprising, that big organizations are still
conditioning their users to become fraud victims.

-- 
Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com

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