22 Feb
2006
22 Feb
'06
3:37 p.m.
Rumor has it that Chuck Guzis may have mentioned these words:
On 2/22/2006 at 4:46 PM Jim Leonard wrote:
Which, when clicked on in Eudora, and opened in Firefox, I get this nice
little confirmation window, with the title of "Confirm" and the text: You
are about to log into the site "1113982819" with the username
"www%2Eebay%2Ecom," but the web site does not require authentication. This
may be an attempt to trick you. Is "1113982819" the site you want to visit?
Oh, and I've never been phished either, but I have looked at a few websites
just to see how good/bad the "translation" was and a few I've seen were
pretty pitiful... If I were a bastard, I'd say that anyone that got phished
with some of those really bad websites deserve what they get... but I'm
not, am I??? ;-P
Laterz,
"Merch"
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Thunderbird will display the URL of any link you
hover over in an
email... so the email will say "www.ebay.com" and the actual displayed
link during the hover is "201.22.98.34/incoming/.ebay.com". I've never
been phished.
The trickier links exploit the more oddball features of browser addresses.
Some older versions of IE, for example will swallow things like
http://www.ebay.com at 1113982819/ (which actually references google).
Sufficiently obscure to fool the casual user.