Microsoft offers defense against 'ice phishing' crypto scammers Microsoft has some advice on how to defend against "ice phishing" and other novel attacks that aim to empty cryptocurrency wallets, for those not already abstaining. Ice fishing involves cutting a hole in a frozen body of water in order to catch fish. Ice phishing, as Microsoft describes it, is a clickjacking, or a user …
There are a number of us who use Office 365 this week that have seen first hand how Microsoft tends to defend its users from these scammers.
By listing the domain names of the user's company as being infected with Malware. Then going through all of the emails for that user and their company, removing them from their mailboxes and throwing them in to quarantine en mass.
At which point, they then say "Oops, sorry" after a full 2 days of these shenanigans without so much as an explanation as to why, to only then (from last night) remove emails that have been received this week and then redeliver them to the same mailbox, as if the emails have just been sent.
Colour me surprised that no one seems to have covered this monumental faux pas, that's affected a fair number of customers?
Don't get involved in the stupid, f%&king Web3 scamming bollocks to start with! Walla, you are protected from being scammed out of your crypto - because you dont have any! No Ice phishing for you!
Protect yourself, your family, and the Environment - just say NO!!!!
A couple dozen pints? You lightweight!
May I point out to OP (lglethal) though, that the word in question is "Voila"? I believe "Walla" (or technically, Walla Walla) is a type of sweet onion from Washington state. And they're tasty, especially on burgers.
As an Australian I'm going to declare that as we have a town in eastern Australia called Walla Walla, not to be confused with Wagga Wagga, Warra Warra, or Balla Balla, that we say "Walla!" as our choice of exclamation! Not that I just completely switched off my brain whilst typing that, no, no, no...
(Cheers for the pick up! :P)
Actually, it's funny that you say that. Until now, the only time I had encountered someone saying "walla" as an exclamation was in The Lost Continent, which of course is Pratchett's Discworld novel set in a land that is possibly based on Australia. So that reinforces your "we use it spelled that way" explanation - guess Sir Terry knew that, and chucked it in for added verisimilitude.
Anyway. Have a cold one. Tinny, stubby, or whatever they're called down there :)
The joy of working from home is that I am my own pub. Just got a 12-pack of Irish beers from Costco (Harp, Guinness, Smithwicks) and am starting on one. Hey, the sun is technically over the yardarm, so it doesn't count as daytime drinking...
It's the drinking water I tell you. It has to be the drinking water. The CIA and the Illuminati are putting something in it that deprives people of what little sense they normally have.. Worldwide apparently.
And I think the animals are starting to act funny too.
It has to be the drinking water.
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