Hi Bill, On 19.08.2018 19:03, Bill Jouris wrote:
While thinking about Meikal's comments on the subject in Thursday's meeting, I came across this in an e-mail:
----- Forwarded Message ----- *From:* Bαnk of Americα <customer@bankofamerica-alert.com> *To:* *Sent:* Thursday, June 28, 2018 10:26 PM *Subject:* Notification: Confirm Your Online Banking Details
Note the first two instances of a lower case letter A in the From line.
Apparently someone has generated a lower case letter A in the handwritten form, and expected it to be recognized easily. The alternative being that American English has acquired a Latin Small Letter Alpha (which, note, isn't in our repertoire currently) . . . and is misspelling both "Bank" and "America" to boot.
that's an strange example you just forwarded. I don't know why they changed the a in the name. It makes no sense as they could have simply used the correct spelling, after all it's not a domain name, but just a plain label. There is no need to switch the letters. On the contrary, changing it makes it even more suspicious. The domain name (bankofamerica-alert.com) on the other hand is using the basic ASCII letters. Best regards, Michael -- ____________________________________________________________________ | | | knipp | Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH ------- Technologiepark Martin-Schmeisser-Weg 9 44227 Dortmund Germany Dipl.-Informatiker Fon: +49 231 9703-0 Fax: +49 231 9703-200 Dr. Michael Bauland SIP: Michael.Bauland@knipp.de Software Development E-mail: Michael.Bauland@knipp.de Register Court: Amtsgericht Dortmund, HRB 13728 Chief Executive Officers: Dietmar Knipp, Elmar Knipp