[ale] [OT] Spam "from" Safari

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)]

safaribooksonline.com is owned by O'Reilly.  Maybe they are targeting 
those that
are not intelligent in the ways of geekdom?

JK wrote:
> Phishers seem to be getting smarter :-(
>
> I just got an email entitled "Safari Books Online Newsletter, June 
> 2008".  It was totally gramatically correct (!) and truly resembled 
> other updates I've received from O'Reilly since becoming a Safari 
> subscriber, I opened it without thinking and clicked on the link for 
> "Effective Java 2nd Ed". Then noticed that the page that opened was 
> "safaribooksonline.com", not "safari.oreilly.com". Hmm. And sure enough, 
> there were tracking images and bogus URLs embedded in the original message.
>
> Good news: Thunderbird filed it as junk.  Dumb news: I fished it out of 
> the junk pile and opened it :-(
>
> -- JK
>
>