Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread error
my question is -- how is this done? how does this URL: http://www.citibank.com:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/3/?IYTEw 4eVTtbH1w6CpDrT Ah but you see it doesn't! It brings up the last part after the @ sign. a3ksd.PiSeM.NeT/3/?IYTEw4eVTtbH1w6CpDrT An old dirty trick used by slashdot trolls. -- error

Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread Michael J Wenk
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:17:52AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu 25 Sep 03, 10:46 AM, Rob Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:24:56AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i didn't know this. so, an URL is of the form: URL = user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread R. Douglas Barbieri
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 06:30:32AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.citibank.com:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/3/?IYTEw 4eVTtbH1w6CpDrT This has me flabbergasted. I bet this trick worked very well for the scammers. I mean, even though the email is amateurish, the web page looks totally legit. I

Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread R. Douglas Barbieri
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:47:00AM -0700, R. Douglas Barbieri wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 06:30:32AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.citibank.com:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/3/?IYTEw 4eVTtbH1w6CpDrT This has me flabbergasted. I bet this trick worked very well for the scammers. I mean,

Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread Michael J Wenk
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:57:25AM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote: I think what you've described is the URI. URL is supposed to be a subset of URI, whatever that means. I personally don't care but I wouldn't mind knowing what that means if anyone else knows. I referred to an RFC that desribes

Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread David Margolis
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Rob Rogers wrote: Name CC# CCV (that 3 digit number at the end of the signature panel) Pin # Mother's maiden name. MSN Acct name MSN password Social security # My wife and I got some phone calls like this a few months ago. When they'd call, they'd say that they

RE: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread Donald Childs
Has this been submitted to Citibank or the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force ( http://www.sachitechcops.org/ )? -Donald -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 6:31 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread p
On Thu 25 Sep 03, 12:09 PM, Donald Childs [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Has this been submitted to Citibank or the it's been reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i've been toying around with reporting it to FBI since i'm fairly sure this WILL catch people, and it's not a silly pyramid scheme (remember

RE: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread Donald Childs
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 12:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen. On Thu 25 Sep 03, 12:09 PM, Donald Childs [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Has this been

Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread Tim Riley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu 25 Sep 03, 12:09 PM, Donald Childs [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Has this been submitted to Citibank or the it's been reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The post on the dubious account/pin form gets transmitted to blades.netnation.com. I sent a message to Netnation

Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread Michael J Wenk
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:22:43PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu 25 Sep 03, 12:09 PM, Donald Childs [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Has this been submitted to Citibank or the it's been reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i've been toying around with reporting it to FBI since i'm fairly sure

Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread Ken Bloom
On 2003.09.25 07:46, Rob Rogers wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:24:56AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i didn't know this. so, an URL is of the form: URL = user:[EMAIL PROTECTED] where lowercase url is what i used to think of as being an url. and the user:password@ portion is optional.

RE: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread Donald Childs
. (916)321-1132 or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael J Wenk Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen. On Thu

Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread Rob Rogers
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 13:58:13PM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:33:08AM -0700, Michael J Wenk wrote: Also, guess it doesn't hurt to say that you should never have your PIN for online banking match the one for your ATM. Or if you're forced, be bloody sure that

Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:45:04AM -0700, David Margolis wrote: My wife and I talked about how tragic it would be if an elderly person answered, or a mentally disabled person, or anybody else who otherwise might be a bit easier to take advantage of. They were very good at the scam. We just

Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 02:52:48PM -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote: I get about three or four nigerian scam messages per day, on average, at my personal email address. I got about 8 today. Since SoBIG died down, that's about ALL the vox* lists have been getting, so far as spam, lately. (I found

Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread Mark K. Kim
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Micah J. Cowan wrote: Do you know of banks that let you choose two different PINs, one for online, one for ATM? That'd be nice... Unionbank. Not really a PIN online - more like a password. I got rid of the online thing, though, 'cuz you pay for it and I didn't need it.

Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread Ken Bloom
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:58:13PM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:33:08AM -0700, Michael J Wenk wrote: Also, guess it doesn't hurt to say that you should never have your PIN for online banking match the one for your ATM. Or if you're forced, be bloody sure that the

Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread Michael Wenk
On Thursday 25 September 2003 02:08 pm, Micah J. Cowan wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:07:39AM -0700, Michael J Wenk wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:57:25AM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote: I think what you've described is the URI. URL is supposed to be a subset of URI, whatever that means.

Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread Micah J. Cowan
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 06:58:59PM -0700, Michael Wenk wrote: On Thursday 25 September 2003 02:08 pm, Micah J. Cowan wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:07:39AM -0700, Michael J Wenk wrote: I referred to an RFC that desribes URIs, which I did at one time read(several years ago), or