A phishing tale about the one that got away

摘要

I knew immediately that the email appearing to be from US Airways was actually a phishing attempt because it asked me to confirm a flight I had not booked from a city near which I do not live. But despite that instantaneous recognition of a scam, alarm bells began clanging anyway for one simple reason: I had flown on US Airways on vacation less than two weeks prior - for the first time in, well, close to if not forever -and so I assumed that the scammer had copped my email address from the airline sometime since that transaction.