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This is just about the worst possible way to notify a customer of any issue anyway, because it legitimizes those stupid ad-based malware popups that have become
by thaumaturgy 9y ago
This is just about the worst possible way to notify a customer of any issue anyway, because it legitimizes those stupid ad-based malware popups that have become so prevalent.
As more Comcast customers receive JS-based notices like these injected into their normal web traffic, any enterprising jerk can clone the message, change the links to point to their own phishing site, change or omit the phone number, and snag a whole bunch of unsuspecting Comcast customers.
- userbinator 9y agoAs more Comcast customers receive JS-based notices like these injected into their normal web traffic, any enterprising jerk can clone the message, change the links to point to their own phishing site, change or omit the phone number, and snag a whole bunch of unsuspecting Comcast customers. To be a devil's advocate, Comcast customers have been phished before via email too: http://technology.pitt.edu/news-and-alerts/phishing-alert-email-notice-mimics-comcast-xfinity-support http://technology.pitt.edu/news-and-alerts/phishing-alert-em... ...and then there's the various phone and even door-to-door scams, but I'd consider the latter to be much harder to do.