Phishing for Valentines — this time it’s different…NOT!

Early Monday morning we received our first phishing e-​mail of this week — the sender showed as a national florist, but the sub­ject line began with “FW…” and the mes­sage invited us to open the attached photo for a $19.99 flower offer for Valentine’s.

Our Yahoo! spam filter deter­mined that the actual sender was dif­ferent from the florist named as the sender. So, it fil­tered this mes­sage (and its lethal attach­ment) into the Spam folder — from which we deleted it.

The attach­ment is the part that may either invade your com­puter looking for your credit card infor­ma­tion — or it may link you to a web­site which asks you to enter your credit card or finan­cial infor­ma­tion. Either way it’s a bad deal for good people.

So, what? So, watch out. The e-​mail arrived among many Valentine’s Day spe­cial offers from the usual national florists and syn­di­cates. A quick look might fail to pick it out as a dan­gerous phishing probe.