On 10/12/2011 1:57 PM, Kelson Vibber wrote: > Yeah. There's an awful lot of newsletter, opt-in advertisement, > and even transactional mail traffic that uses URL redirectors for > click-tracking purposes, and far too often they'll put the > destination URL (or a simplified form of it) in as the link text.
Yes. And banks, paypal, facebook, and other phishing targets are frequent offenders of this. Modifying the link is not the answer since some of these legit sites are finally starting to DKIM sign mail. > It's a horrible practice, IMO, since it essentially trains people to ignore > what should be a major phishing indicator, but it's also very common. +1 -- Noel Jones
