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Re:HTTPS on Your Landing Page Is Important by jjeaff on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @09:53PM (#15919603)
One of the worst I've seen is Franklin Templeton. They sent out snail mail telling everyone to go to a URL like "accountservices.biz" and reenter private information like your social security number in order to update your account records.

The site itself is branded just like Templeton's own site. From what I could gather, it is actually their site but even the whois is something non descript. Quite ridiculous. And of course they don't have any way whatsoever that I could find to report things like vulnerabilities or phishing attempts.

Re:HTTPS on Your Landing Page Is Important by stuff4ben on Thursday December 14, 2017 @09:03AM (#15922296)
That would be a fascinating way to do a scam. Send snail mail to people directing them to a site that looks like a major company, ask them to enter in their PII and boom, there you go. Of course now you've committed untold amounts of federal crime by using the postal system and you'd definitely get sent to federal PMITA prison if you got caught. But I could definitely see this working on older people who, bless their little hearts, just don't know any better.