OT: What Does This Mean?

[Gryphin]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Not heard it called phishing before..ussually called spoofing. And you -can- tell its being done, if you look at all the headers carefully.

Of more concern is an email I got from "Citibank" asking me to change my PIN. The link said http://citibank.blahblahblah, but actually lead to a site with no DNS entry- if you looked in the status bar. If you didn't, and clicked on the link you got an exact copy of the Citi website. Even the first part of the domain name was right- but if you read farther the spoofing was there.

Of course, I'm not a Citibank customer..so I KNEW something was fishy. Wonder how many people will fall for that.

Far toooooo many. I almost did late one morning. I was in the process when Pooh Star came in to say good night. I "woke up" and realized what I was doing.

I called Citibank. They gave me an address to forward it to.

[rdouglass]

Originally posted by Katchoo:

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
Ok, so I open my email just now and OH BOY I have a message from MICROSOFT, along with an attachment. (Virus Detector goes off)

I actually LOL at this.

Dear friend , use this Internet Explorer patch now!
There are dangerous virus in the Internet now!
More than 500.000 already infected!

Unless you go to Microsoft's Web Site and sign up to recieve notices, you'll never get a message from Microsoft (outside of Hotmail related garbage).

When Microsoft wants to get a hold of you, they use Lawyers, not e-mails.



Thank god 'Call for Help' is comming back to TechTV Canada. When you needed info from the computer world, there was no better source of help & information.

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$.02 Also, Microsoft NEVER distributes software via email. /$.02

[Gandalf Parker]

I got one from support@community.net which is the main email address I use. It was telling me that they had seen a large number of emails coming from my machine, and they feared I was trojaned. They provided a nice file and instructions on how to run it to clear things up. As an ISP systems admin, I knew better than to ever do anything like that but I worried that others might fall for it.

In my case the use of support@ my ISP was pretty funny since community.net died years ago and has no support section.

[Loser]

I like the spam with random words or gibberish, like this

Originally sent by tehdrbcumvig@usa.com
Fbkqya aabhlwtsd yeuvq gzjxwn Tfdlcedxd nydzlular. xanro Rtubch fezaz
Hpllgdfbex Afrbesdbxc Pikbeab atoxkxfe uripyey fqrob.
sgxehbcwi bbsvlb jfuasxxr hqubqrw jszjtykel dnmgvvo qffjr ztdynn
Weoiwwso vlujlmgd mhoxfplyv Setmldgaw intvyodn Pjngmdd Huzsnuzihs ocinmvr favdmtj
ymsdw Youqlnqx rkieax nimnoyii Hidbivsko neavkt bsfhfjv Qnpcphnen zsybxnn,
jqqwtgmep Ebarmuim tqjjnpta gojszvu zhglwox. ocjqnw pbvwao
Qraapnuv Lmyzkg xrjkozcso sswugs ozzfycf ilbemlti osxwgnihv fxqeb, twpxw

The ones with random words that are acutally properly arranged (as nouns, verbs, pronouns and whatnot should be) and conjugated but make no sense are good too. I don't have one around right now, but I may edit one into this post later.

Can anyone tell me why text like this is included in an advertizement? It doesn't keep Hotmail from filtering it out as spam, so I'm wondering what it's supposed to be doing for the advertiser.

[Phoenix-D]

The point of those is twofold. Some of them have real HTML Messages that are supposed to be seen instead of the gibberish. That is supposed to defeat spam filters.

The others are designed to confuse adaptive spam filters. The idea is if you mark enough of them as junk it'll think ALL your mail is junk and you'll stop using it.