On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, at 5:43am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Some guy is setting up a site at various webhosting places and then > sending out spam that looks like it's coming from ebay.
Yah, I get these all the time. I've also seen it for Paypal, AOL, MSN, Hotmail, and Yahoo accounts, and for various credit cards. One I saw for Citibank was very well done, complete with copied graphics and a URL crafted to trick the unobservant into thinking it was the real Citibank site[1]. And of course there are the countless worms that propagate via email; some of those capture keystrokes or do other covert information gathering. I'm thinking of sending out a bulk mailing that just asks people to send me lots of money, since it seems that people will believe and do anything written in an email. Footnotes --------- [1] The following URL does *NOT* lead you to Citibank's website: http://www.citi.com:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/foo.pl It leads to my employer's web server, and says to use credentials with a username of "www.citi.com" and a password of "system-v3-login.asp". It results in a 404, since I'm not actually trying to harvest information. But you get the idea. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do | | not represent the views or policy of any other person or organization. | | All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss