I haven't seen one of these in a while. Do you have SpamAssassin
running? It should be able to filter this sort of thing out. There's not
much you can do about this sort of attack, SMTP sucks and people trust
this lousy protocol too much:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5519990/

When is someone going to implement something that isn't as old as DNS
and has all the security and authentication we need?

Mark

On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 05:22 +0800, d peer wrote:
> This emial and another one with the Subject "Scotiabank Internet banking: 
> client's data verification" are obvious attempts at social engineering. 
> Hopefully nobody here would fall for this, but it behooves us to warn those 
> that are less informed.
> 

-- 
Mark C. Ballew - Free Software advocate, admin, and developer
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