Ahh, phishing, the old “It’s really urgent [you inherited a large sum of money from a South-African philanthropist | Your bank account has reported weird activities it was most definitely hacked |  your PayPal account has been blocked] please go to this link and login”…

So far I managed to dodge a bunch of these attempts to “catch” my credentials like a Pokemon from a multitude of cyber thugs, despite many of them were quite believable sporting pages designed to resemble the original ones with great attention to the details, such as ad banners and real “internal” links, by just having a professionally trained eye and smelling something phishy. Continue reading…