On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Lars Wigrell wrote:
> The other day I found a small program that converts ones e-mail address
> to a line of entity characters. The aim is to make it harder for spam
> robots to find ones e-mail address when searching ones web pages.
This veers off encoded e-mail and back to encoded
web pages... not just entity characters for this guy
though:
Talk about someone who doesn't want to be found...
A spam I got the other day claims I can get a $10,000 grant,
guaranteed. All I have to do is give them my checking acount
number and other info. Yeah, right! (I wonder how many
gullible people do it though)
Anyway, first of all, the URL is given in decimal, so you
can't readily ascertain the website.
http://1078384775/grant.html
Then, the entire page is encoded (so it won't end up on a
Google search and come to the attention of those who search
the web for such scams. Then, once you do determine that
1078384775 = 64.70.216.135 and do a dig on it, and find out
it's 4wdquadz.com, a whois on that domain comes up empty...
How do you register a domain to the point that dig can
find it, but whois can't?
- Steve
