24 Sep
2005
24 Sep
'05
2:42 p.m.
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 08:41:34 -0400
"John Allain" <allain at panix.com> wrote:
have
Phishing
Consider yourself lucky the ones who are so naiive on this subject. I received over 200 such messages in the last year and a
half, just
PayPal.
Watch the mouseover resolutions of links to quickly
verify that they
are
baddies. If that fails, then move your mouse to the
extreme right
margin
and drag select back to the left to see if the link
text is actually
an
image. Just two tricks that are used. Viewing HTML
source for
HREF's
is just about the only absolute proof.
That, or specifically using a mail client that 'breaks' HTML Mail. I
get 'spam' all the time that consists of the babble nonsense they put in
the 'plaintext' section to foil anti-spam mechanisms. Then there's a
'graphic attachment' that I *could* view if I wanted to bother. With a
client like Lookout Express, Microsoft decides that for the user.