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Gtalk phishing attack- Did a friend ping you to see a video? (gmail, Word)

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03-12-2009, 11:32 AM

always.arvind always.arvind started this thread

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Many people that I know of have received a gtalk message, asking you to visit a site to view a " cool" video . When you do do there, you are requested to enter your gmail user name and password ... and many people have fallen for it... not just laymen , unaware of phishing attacks!

Wanted to see how widespead this phishing attack was...

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