Re: fraud emails

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 07/03/04 

Date: 3 Jul 2004 17:44:22 GMT

"Adam Russell" <REMOVETHIS_adamrussell@sbcglobal.net> writes:

]I have been getting emails supposedly from paypal and various banks asking
]me to click the link and re-enter my information. I'm certain these are
]scam since I dont do business with these companies. I know I could just
]filter them out, but it bugs me that these criminals are preying on ignorant
]people and people that may have elderly degenerative cognitive syndrome (I
]made that up but you know what I mean). Is there some authority I could
]forward these to that could catch these guys?

I agree. But the authorities know about them. You could forward them to the
companies concerned (but not by clicking on the links in those emails. If
you look carefully at the html code in those emails, you will notice that
the link to which you are directed by the code is different from the link
claimed in the text.

<A http="111.222.333.222/paypal/paypal.html">www.paypal.com/security.html</A>

(the above is make up but is what any of those will look like-- the http
tag which is where your browser will go, is different from teh text that
you see when you click on it. Is it a good idea that browsers only display
the latter, and not the former? Probably not. )
And that 111.222.333.222 is liable to be in a totally different country,
which makes legal cooperation difficult.

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