Phishing mail, interesting…

Posted by multippt

For some strange reason, I have been getting more phishing emails than in the past. Looks like my personal email address is getting circulated. :p

Well, at least these emails were easy to spot (aside from the fact that I do not have a PayPal nor Egold account). Though, there is something interesting about phishing email: The way how email services like Google and Microsoft (Windows Live Hotmail) handles them.

Hotmail is able to treat phishing emails more better than Google Mail (or GMail). Why is this so? Ever since the introduction of the “Report Phishing Scam” button, Hotmail has become more efficient at clearing out fakes.

What about Google? The “Spam” button may work, though it has its own problem - clicking on that button will put most emails with similar content into junk, inclusive of legitimates. Hotmail probably has a special way of treating phishing emails, taking into consideration of the spoofed email addresses.

What about Yahoo, you may ask. Well, I did not receive any phishing emails there, so I cannot really judge it.