[LINK] ICANN phishing

[Adam Todd]

At 05:30 PM 27/10/2006, Roger Clarke wrote:
>>On 2006 Oct 27, at 4:13 PM, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>>>  Are they asking you to log in (OK), or "click here to log in" (BAD)?
>
>At 4:38 PM +1000 27/10/06, Kim Holburn wrote:
>>Click here to log in with a "special" URL.
>
>I approached the email I received from NSI (re a .com domain I own) with 
>the same degree of suspicion;  but (rightly or wrongly) I concluded that 
>the email was legit.
>
>(Of course if we restricted email to ASCII, we wouldn't have this nonsense 
>of visible URLs hiding nasty trapdoor URLs).

You read HTML email?  Gawd, I use Eudora and in 10 years have NEVER turned 
on the HTML features!

All HTML encoded email is automatically filtered into HTML-SPAM folder and 
I tend to ignore most of it :)