Bob Collins on MPR today talked about a new phorm of phishing. Phishing is putting out emotionally charged material and having the unsuspecting person go to their web site where they can then get important passwords and account numbers and then clean out their phunds.
The latest phorm of phishing is political contributions. The phishers are casting their hooks in the phorm of political ads and having you respond to it by providing a small contribution. They then go in and clean out your accounts.
What is insidious about this phorm of phishing is that it is so close to our political process that it just might work. I mean how are you going to be able to distinguish between phishers and politicians? They both say one thing when they mean another, and they don't mind helping themselves to your phunds. I imagine, the way we are going to tell who is who, is that the politicians are visible.
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