[X Newbies] Vicious Spam

Bruce Klutchko klutch at erols.com
Mon Jan 26 08:53:10 PST 2004


On 1/26/04 10:29 AM, "Ben Gold" <bgold at acedsl.com> wrote:

> It's interesting because in both Safari and Explorer and in the email
> the URL appears as
> 
>> <http://www.fdic.gov@211.191.224.108:3180/index.htm>
> 
> actually there are two URLs in the email, one that appears to go to the
> actual fdic, and the other which is the above link and asks for your
> name, etc.
> 
> So does it really appear to be fdic.gov somehow, or does it always show
> up as fdic.gov at 211.191.224...etc

IN THE ORIGINAL EMAIL, the URL was not on two lines. It appeared only as
"www.fdic.gov"  in blue with an underline. The rest of the URL appeared only
when I looked at the source code.

Bruce
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