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
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[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.
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Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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