even the experts can be fooled by phishing sites

Yep, even me.

McAfee SiteAdvisor have released a phishing quiz.

I went in with supreme confidence ... I can ace this quiz said I ... nope, I got 9 out of 10.

"So which question did you get wrong?:, I hear you ask.  It was the question about Chase Bank - I immediately rejected the *real* site because it asked for a Social Security number.  My thinking, as a non-American, was that a legitimate banking site would not be so silly as to desensitize their users to dangerous internet practice by asking them to enter their Social Security Number into an online loan application - it seems I was wrong.  Anyway, because of my reaction to the request for a Social Security Number I only glanced at the other site and was fooled.

It just goes to show - never make assumptions when dealing with phishing sites.  And don't get over-confident; over-confidence leads to mistakes.

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Published Sun, Jul 22 2007 13:00 by sandi
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# re: even the experts can be fooled by phishing sites

Sunday, July 22, 2007 4:32 AM by Sonic

I get 8 out of 10. I am not an expert though. I judge it by my own experience.

# re: even the experts can be fooled by phishing sites

Sunday, July 22, 2007 1:14 PM by Rob Nicholls

I think it was the Chase one that caught me out, I got 9/10 too. However, I don't use Chase, so I wouldn't have entered my details into either of the forms. And if I did use Chase, I'd probably know which was the valid form. I'd also look at the URL too, which (IIRC) was missing in that question.