[LINK] People lie more on the phone than by email

[Adam Todd]

>no, the first URL has these components:
>
>     scheme:     http
>     username:   federalpolice.com
>     password:   article872
>     host:       1075686747
>
>that's a funny looking hostname/number.

It's a decimal representation.

This was discussed on Link about 1996 or 1997 :)  Maybe the hacker read the 
link archives?

>Nothing too nonsense about the IP address, they've just stuck extra leading
>zeros in, which get ignored.
>
>     >  http://100.35.255.133/

Octal for the same IP address in decimal.  Again, part of the same 
discussion on like an elifetime ago :)