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So in response to my  other post on the Chase Phishing scam I am writing a follow-up that serves two purposes. 1) It lets you know some networking internals which are great for troubleshooting purposes, and 2) gives you more detail about how phishing works.

So I mentioned in my last post that one of my clues that I was looking at a scam was the network address homeftp.net.  But the question is would it be possible for the phishers to use chase.com?  To explain that we need to back up to what is chase.com?  Is chase.com the actual address? The answer in short is no. The way computers talk to each other is through an IP address (internet protocol).  The IP address isn't a name like Mark Rosedale, but a number (like your SS number). Each machine on a network has an IP address that lets... ... read more >>> bfpower.wordpress.com