Re: off topic. Oyster cards

"Marjorie Clarke" <dontusethisaddess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
"Robin Fairbairns" <rf10@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...
chris mcmillan <spam.tin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Marjorie Clarke <dontusethisaddess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Trip Advisor is a genuine, very useful website and it does send out
e-mails
to people who have signed up for its forums.

Nevertheless, it's always wiser
to ignore links in e-mails and log on to the website via google or some
other means.

Good point, Marjorie. You need your password to access their site too
even when clicking on the links.

so if someone fakes the site's email structure, they can phish for
your password.

I've had a lot of material published there: both photos and reviews.
(No: not even brass razzos for payments). They're very strict about what
goes up there - but also very helpful and patient when their site
doesn't respond for any reason over several days.

i can't imagine what good your site password might do people, once
they had phished it, short of blackening your name on the site. but
then i don't understand what the point of newsgroup trolls is either.

No, it would seem a bit of a pointless exercise. The site doesn't take any
money for anything, and people post their messages anonymously, using
made-up "usernames", so why on earth would anyone want to set up a fake
site?

there are some strange people out there. people _do_ relish the idea
of blackening the name of people who they know only as pseudonyms.

but worse, to come back to my original point, to chris: suppose she
does unwittingly forward a forged trip advisor mail, which turns out
to be a nutter going phishing. now suppose that the mail falls into
some other isp's spam trap: now chris is on the slippery slope to
being identified as a spammer, with consequent danger of losing her
account.

never, ever, forward anything you are not 100% sure of.
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
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