On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:47:00AM -0700, R. Douglas Barbieri wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 06:30:32AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > http://www.citibank.com:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/3/?IYTEw > > 4eVTtbH1w6CpDrT > > This has me flabbergasted. I bet this trick worked very well for the > scammers. I mean, even though the email is amateurish, the web page > looks totally legit. I tested this out in konqueror; hovering over any > link on the page shows that it would be redirected through PsSeM.NeT. > > I remember seeing something like this during the dot bomb. There was a > website called something like safeweb.com (I can't remember the actual > name, it's on the tip of my tounge). The idea was for you to be able to > surf the web using https--the https server would "wrap" all of the > target links on a page before serving it to your browser via https--I > guess a kind of web tunneling.
Oh well, never mind. You would think I would look a little closer. It's not wrapping, it's doing a popup--and I normally have popups disabled. This isn't as bad as I thought, but it still should have fooled a lot of people. > -- > R. Douglas Barbieri > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.dooglio.net > > vi: "The way God meant for man to edit text files..." > > GPG Fingerprint: FE6A 6A57 2B95 7594 E534 BFEE 45F1 9E5E F30A 8A27 > GPG Public key : http://www.dooglio.net/dooglio.asc -- R. Douglas Barbieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dooglio.net vi: "The way God meant for man to edit text files..." GPG Fingerprint: FE6A 6A57 2B95 7594 E534 BFEE 45F1 9E5E F30A 8A27 GPG Public key : http://www.dooglio.net/dooglio.asc
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