Optimally different!

Update Mea culpa. It turns out I was the one who had it wrong after all. The email said to "reply to this message with.." all the phish'd information. I'd seen the url (which is still a suspicious-looking url) and thought it was directing people there. *sigh*. Well, that was embarrassing. Maybe that'll teach me to skim things and assume I understand. =:\



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Going to have a little mini-rant here, so I can hopefully then move on and stop thinking about it (nothing heavy, just annoying, and the annoyance is taking up cycles I don't have to spare right now). Heck, maybe I'm missing something, too. If so I'd appreciate having it pointed out.

See, I received a phishing email that said "blah blah blah your account may have been compromised blah blah, go to https: //mail.sover.net/l and enter your username, old password, new password and DOB or we will de-activate your account" (the mis-formatting in the url was added by me to keep it from linking, even though the phishing site has since disappeared).

For those not familiar with phishing scams, a url like "https: //mail.sover.net/l" basically says "Hello, I am a server that someone broke into and set up a hostile site on in a subdir they hope no one will notice until they've hooked some victims".

I looked up the domain's support and abuse addresses and forwarded them the message. Their response was:
( Correspondance cut for those who don't care )