RE: Interesting maybe new form of Phishing?
"James C Slora Jr" <[email protected]>
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Dan Morrill wrote Monday, January 10, 2005 21:31 > Got this really interesting mail in my box today, and knowing > that I haven't used that e-mail address or ordered anything > on line lately. Wondering if it might not be a phishing > e-mail. Haven't seen anything like this before. > Anyone see anything similar? > To : "Gabrielle U. Philips, Jr" <[email protected]> > Subject : Shipping Notification, Tracking Number : TCD461649887242ESB > cov2pa.com/track.asp?cg=1&c=tc (blah blah blah to befuddle spam filters) Yes, this is pretty common for me (1/2000 or so). The ones I have checked into have been a random mix of classic spam, phishing attempts, hostile code sites, simple address probes (completely bogus URLs), and cheesy pcsecrpiiton durg or mrgogtae lneidng sites whose motives can't be deciphered easily. I think the subjects are just designed to get through spam filters and get you to open the message, and are useful social engineering regardless of what the sender's objective is. _______________________________________________ Intrusions mailing list [email protected] http://www.dshield.org/mailman/listinfo/intrusions