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(Media) Phishing came mainly from Linux boxes
Monty Solomon mo...@roscom.com comp dcom telecom UPGRADE Best news in the war on spam: phishing By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff The Internet continues to serve up All the crooks need is a few dozen suckers a day, and they could rake in millions. All in all, it's the best news yet in the war on Internet junk mail.

Phishing not a profitable pasttime?
When I've been able to see the php source code for a phishing page these pages typically sent mail to a Hotmail or similar account. the Activestate Perl distribution to flood these php pages and thus the underlying Hotmail or whatever account so that they can't dig out the victim postings from all the junk?

Phishing not a profitable pasttime?
Offbreed offbreed_...@hotmail.com alt comp anti-virus kurt wismer wrote: dictionary attacks are a possibility... i recently started receiving junk mail at work even Oddly, I get more junk mail at my work account than any of the others, including this one. That reminds me, Alaska Scare lines sent an important

Is there any danger when auto-opening junk E-mails?
Do you read all your junk mail? Wow - if so, that's asking for trouble! I actually got one spoofing a bank I *use*, last week. I think that was a first. :) Dogger Bank? I got one from a sperm bank. But it turned out to be an artificial dissemination. But you immediately recognized it as phony given that it didn't

Complaint about wildcard terms...
Jeff C jeff_...@hotmail.com news admin net-abuse email On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:40:36 GMT, Felix Tilley <ftil...@raytheon.cyberbromo.com> wrote: I also shred unwanted credit card application forms. Especially jnukmailed ones, but I save the handy post-paid envelope to send the postalspammers' junk back to them...

new phishing scam (new to me anyhow)
For the last couple of months the Windows Mail Junk E-Mail Filter refuses to install. I have tried downloading it separtely and then installing it myself I have been getting an increase in Spam/Phishing emails lately! -- LDL 905866 (if thats the one you mean) installed OK for me - HP with Windows Firewall and

OT:Poisoning the waters for phishing
Can you explain to a lamer how this policy of filling stuff with junk is supposed to thwart the greatest paying criminal scamming activity ever? Sure, its maths. The spammers send out, say 1 million phishing emails.They work on the basis they will getvery few replies as a percentage. If they get 100 replies from

Junk or Real???
Unlike you, however, most have not bothered to open the message, marking it as Junk or Spam and/or deleting it. Similar messages reach people's inboxes dime a dozen. For GMail, click the small arrowhead next to the 'Reply' button at the top-right of the message and select 'Report phishing'. For Yahoo!

Phishing
By some estimates, “Rock” is responsible for about half of all phishing in the world. Rock phishes have a pretty simple set of characteristics to them: * They are advertised in image spam, using junk text and a link in the image to the phishing site. * Each phishing site has a number of unique URLs pointing to it,

How to block phishing from Volksbanken when Junk Filter can't
-----Original Message----- From: Scott Villarosa [mailto:sjvill...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, 5 December 2004 1:32 PM To: Gmail-Lounge@googlegroups.com Subject: [Gmail-Lounge] amazon phishing spam i'm collecting spam at the moment. cool spam like phishing scams and nigerian letters and junk. anyway,

New Phishing Campaign
I can forward a few pieces of junk if trying to reach that half way mark to a thousand. ..winston "Earle Horton" <el_anglo_burg...@usa.com> wrote in In order to block this particular avenue, you can put yourself in your own blocked senders or junk mail list. Of course, if you are posting using a raw email

eBay phishing scam
Since I had to eyeball them for false-positives anyhow, it's a net timesaver in not having to login to webmail every day to eyeball & delete the junk. It's not clear why they have that "feature" except as some sort of placebo. I went through a period of reporting spam also and, as reported by others,

Junk emails
of how email headers can be dissected to determine the true sender on my site at http://www.coreutilities.co.uk/phishing.html They do appear to have a UK office I'd love to do that, but as yet I don't know what their address is. United Kingdom Address: Critical Path (UK) Ltd East Wing Beechfield House Winterton Way

Outlook [Phishing]
Confi...@highstream.net wrote On 1/25/2007 12:09 PM: Has anybody else gotten MORE junk mail than usual lately? Maybe since an TB upgrade or something? But if Bush declared war on spam like he has declared jihad on Islamic terror, we could invade Russia and haul in the whole spam/phishing empire in less than a

junk mail
Could it be some elaborate phishing scam where they get your bank details when you cash out? I think you have to set up a credit card account before you can qualify for your free cash. And there are various restrictions that make it difficult to win much in the hour. So it's not a scam but it's not much of an offer

Phishing
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SPAM and Phishing intervention
Outlook has incorrectly labeled email from a safe contact with the [Phishing] tag. I have added the sender to the safe senders list and now the email is delivered to the inbox instead of the junk mail folder, but the [Phishing] tag still appears. Is there a way to get it not to label it with [Phishing] since it is

Why not criminalize phishing ?
DGuess ma...@mindspring.oops microsoft public windows vista mail Turn of the Phishing one as well? I think there are still a few bugs left in it. I use another spam filter, and want to eliminate the Windows Mail Junk Email function. I have set the Tools\Junk Email options setting to No Automatic Filtering,

Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter fails to install (K
Indeed, last time I looked, 100% of my real spam was foreign companies or junk by those trying to create spambot nets, or Nigerian phishing, all were using address generators. IF there were viruses therein, running on OS/2 I did not notice and ClamAV has not squawked. My e-mail has been out there for ten years,

Junk Mail
I am not even surprised by junk like this anymore. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: My thanks to Lisa for rounding up this item. So what do we do now? Discontinue any/all shopping on the web where Card Systems is the processor? What information _is_ safe to give over the net any longer? Any at all? PAT] ?