Great post, Katie!

One of my group members, Katie, posted a very insightful message this afternoon. After learning the true definitions of "phishing" in class today, she realized she has seen this type of internet fraud first hand. I have also spotted these types of fake emails in my inbox, but never realized how they got there. As Professor Brown discussed in class, different programs are able to generate a random email address from different combinations of letters and numbers. They then use those addresses as their targets to subject them to different hoaxes, as Katie discussed in her post.