Bank spoof site [was Re: Bugger ... Re: [LINK] Hi]

[Jan Whitaker]

At 06:39 PM 21/01/04 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
>in any case, blocking executables means they don't get in my 
>mailbox.  they may
>not be harmful to my system, but they're still annoying....they're effectively
>just multi-megabyte spams.

Besides the wait-time for downloads on a dial up line, the dangers of 
getting things into my mailbox that may or may not delete has made me a 
firm believer in webmail based deletions from the Index entries.  So far it 
has provided both a faster download experience by throwing out the crap and 
avoiding getting possible viruses before they come to my machine.

I also discovered that viewing a suspect email in my webmail display of the 
browser reveals the full address for the bank spoofed websites where spaces 
and an alternate IP address is attached to the URL when I point to the 
link.   I had to write down the URL of the site before I deleted the 
message because there was no way to cut paste it.  so if anyone wants to 
follow up where the Westpac bank spoof site is, the url given was 
olb.westpac.com.au             @207.150.192.1 .  I was thinking about 
sending to the AFP.

Jan


JLWhitaker Associates
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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