Re: List of Banks often spoofed in Phishing scams

2008-06-05 Thread Ken A
Graham Murray wrote: ram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: That is not practical. Atleast in India, Banks use third party servers to send their mailers often. And the ips have PTR's & HELO's which dont match the banks', because these dont belong to the bank Which practice does nothing at all to com

Re: List of Banks often spoofed in Phishing scams

2008-06-05 Thread Graham Murray
ram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That is not practical. > Atleast in India, Banks use third party servers to send their mailers > often. And the ips have PTR's & HELO's which dont match the banks', > because these dont belong to the bank Which practice does nothing at all to combat phishing. Ban

Re: List of Banks often spoofed in Phishing scams

2008-06-05 Thread ram
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 13:08 +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: > On Thu, June 5, 2008 12:53, ram wrote: > > > Phishers sometimes just forge the Header from & not the Env-From. > > You would not get a SPF_FAIL, because there was nothing wrong with the > > sender address. But the end users are usually ar

Re: List of Banks often spoofed in Phishing scams

2008-06-05 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, June 5, 2008 12:53, ram wrote: > Phishers sometimes just forge the Header from & not the Env-From. > You would not get a SPF_FAIL, because there was nothing wrong with the > sender address. But the end users are usually are not trained to look at > the real sender. good banks have equal

Re: List of Banks often spoofed in Phishing scams

2008-06-05 Thread ram
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 12:02 +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: > On Thu, June 5, 2008 07:33, ram wrote: > > > I do something like this. > > ((! SPF_PASS ) && ( ENV_FROM_GOOD_BANKS || HEADER_FROM_GOOD_BANKS) ) > > then give a score 3.0 > > > > Of course the GOOD_BANKS are a list of bank which have SPF r

Re: List of Banks often spoofed in Phishing scams

2008-06-05 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, June 5, 2008 07:33, ram wrote: > I do something like this. > ((! SPF_PASS ) && ( ENV_FROM_GOOD_BANKS || HEADER_FROM_GOOD_BANKS) ) > then give a score 3.0 > > Of course the GOOD_BANKS are a list of bank which have SPF records. we could olso just give scores on spf fail with a meta :-) B

Re: List of Banks often spoofed in Phishing scams

2008-06-04 Thread ram
> > > > Actually in some ways this leads to an interesting idea. In our wiki > here perhaps we should write some guidelines for banks and everyone else > running legitimate email servers as to what is the correct way to > configure their servers. The first thig that come to mind is getting

Re: List of Banks often spoofed in Phishing scams

2008-06-04 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 10:31:43 AM, Joseph Brennan wrote: > --On Tuesday, June 3, 2008 9:32 -0700 Kelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Marc Perkel wrote: >>> If the FCrDNS matches one of these domains it is ham. >>> If the sender or from address matches one of these domains and the >>> domain

Re: List of Banks often spoofed in Phishing scams

2008-06-04 Thread mouss
Marc Perkel wrote: Actually in some ways this leads to an interesting idea. In our wiki here perhaps we should write some guidelines for banks and everyone else running legitimate email servers as to what is the correct way to configure their servers. The first thig that come to mind is get

Re: List of Banks often spoofed in Phishing scams

2008-06-04 Thread Marc Perkel
Randal, Phil wrote: We should be marking ALL such behaviour as phishing and hope that the banks (etc) finally get a clue. I certainly wouldn't trust my money with an outfit that was that clueless about security. Cheers, Phil Actually in some ways this leads to an interesting idea. In

RE: List of Banks often spoofed in Phishing scams

2008-06-04 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Wed, June 4, 2008 09:30, Randal, Phil wrote: > We should be marking ALL such behaviour as phishing and hope that the > banks (etc) finally get a clue. i hope banks using ssl, but this does not help if phishers sends phising mails to there "custommers" pretending its there banks webpages, this

RE: List of Banks often spoofed in Phishing scams

2008-06-04 Thread Randal, Phil
Joseph Brennan said: > Many banks also send mail from third-party servers. Bank of America sends from > customercenter.com and par3.com. American Express sends from aexp.com (which is > theirs) and cheetahmail.com. Some send from bigfoot. It's only personal bank > account information-- why kee

Re: List of Banks often spoofed in Phishing scams

2008-06-03 Thread Marc Perkel
Patrick McLean wrote: royalbankofcanada.com This is the wrong URL for the Royal Bank, it appears to be a domain camping site. Generally RBC's emails come from rbc.com, they also own royalbank.com, royalbank.ca, rbcroyalbank.ca and rbcroyalbank.com. Also you can add: desjardins.com I get

Re: List of Banks often spoofed in Phishing scams

2008-06-03 Thread Patrick McLean
royalbankofcanada.com This is the wrong URL for the Royal Bank, it appears to be a domain camping site. Generally RBC's emails come from rbc.com, they also own royalbank.com, royalbank.ca, rbcroyalbank.ca and rbcroyalbank.com. Also you can add: desjardins.com I get a fair number of phishing

Re: List of Banks often spoofed in Phishing scams

2008-06-03 Thread Joseph Brennan
--On Tuesday, June 3, 2008 9:32 -0700 Kelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: If the FCrDNS matches one of these domains it is ham. If the sender or from address matches one of these domains and the domain doesn't appear in the Received headers - it's a phish. citibank.com It'

Re: List of Banks often spoofed in Phishing scams

2008-06-03 Thread Kelson
Marc Perkel wrote: If the FCrDNS matches one of these domains it is ham. If the sender or from address matches one of these domains and the domain doesn't appear in the Received headers - it's a phish. citibank.com It's worth noting that Citibank still sometimes uses other domains. I've see

List of Banks often spoofed in Phishing scams

2008-06-03 Thread Marc Perkel
Here's a short list of banks often spoofed in phishing scams. I'm using this list as follows: If the FCrDNS matches one of these domains it is ham. If the sender or from address matches one of these domains and the domain doesn't appear in the Received headers - it's a ph