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SOME OF THE world’s biggest tech companies have joined forces in an effort to crack down on phishing and spam emails.
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook and PayPal are among the companies which have announced they are starting a new technical working group aimed at reducing the threat of deceptive emails.
The tech giants are all backing Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC), which wants to bring in an authentication system to make sure only legitimate messages are delivered.
Phishing emails are ones which appear to come from a trustworthy source – such as a bank – and aim to extract information such as personal details or credit card details from an email user.
The new group says that it wants to increase communication between email senders and receivers to that it becomes more difficult for phishers to impersonate a business and send a fake email.
“Email phishing defrauds millions of people and companies every year, resulting in a loss of consumer confidence in email and the internet as a whole,” said Brett McDowell, the Chair of DMARC and a senior manager at Paypal.
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I hope this doesn’t include the Nigerian Inheritance mails? I love those :(
But where will I get my viagra and university diplomas now? Aww…
At last! It is comical though that these scammers actually believe we would fall for their crap!
There’s an endless supply of foolish people in this world!
Yes indeed. I have conducted a complete body of research into gullible people. For a full copy of the research send €25 to box 27 Lagos airport. Felicitations and compliments from me, lady penelope plummyrose.
People really do fall for this. I personally know a (silly) woman who got on a train from Limerick and travelled to Dublin to pick up the €50,000 cash prize which an email out of the blue told her she had one. She could have just provided her bank account details etc. and allowed the good folks at the other end of the email to lodge her winnings into her account, but she’s a bank of under the mattress sort and somehow ended up on a train to Dublin to collect. Need I say she never saw a cent ? Or sense for that matter.
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