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My email used to be bombarded with spam or phising emails either for Paypal, Maybank or CIMB and sometimes Amazon as well. Usually these emails are in the same format (sometimes even same wordings), same email subject and lil bit different header images and of cause different sender address. But today (the email actually received yesterday but I only open my trusted Thunderbird today) the content is lil bit different, convincing enough and yeah even the sender address seems like from legitimate source for the unsuspecting users.

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Well as Maybank has the largest (I assume) customer in Malaysia and most of them (including me) utilize the online services offered by this bank, of cause these customers will be the main target of phising attempt. Nowadays, the phisers not only want the identity and authentication to access the online portal account, but also the TAC (Transaction Authorization Code). So what are the functions of this TAC numbers? Based on the Maybank website

“TAC is not used for login but for specific transactions and types of activities. TAC will expire after 2 hours if you do not use it, upon request. Once it is activated, you may still use it for another 2 hours. You may perform several transactions with the same TAC” Now you know why the phisers really want the TAC number..

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Currently I am using Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 as my email client. I have this habit of prefering my emails to be stored in my laptop as easier for me to refer to any particular emails while offline. Oh yes, Thunderbird also has the calender where I can monitor my appointments, my immediate tasks and future tasks and also I can check whether these tasks completed or not (this sentence dedicated to wifey and her outlook ;P) Usually I never or seldom look at those emails filtered as Junk or Spam by Thunderbird, but out of the blue, I just decided to look into one that managed to bypass the filters.

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