Hilton hotels’ HHonors loyalty program has shipped an email so similar to a phishing email it tricked its own IT shop into advising that it was a scam. The email was an attempt to get customers to confirm their contact details by logging into their accounts and revising their stored contact details. One user reported the apparent scam to Hilton HHonors through Twitter and was advised that the email was a phoul phish. It is one example of how legitimate email senders are creating opportunities for phishers, NCR Corp security man Lenny Zeltser, who published a proof copy of the HHonors email, says. “… this email message looked so much like phishing that even Hilton’s own support team on Twitter thought it was fraudulent,” Zeltser says
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register
