Re: Hex URL confuses SC

WazoO wrote:
> "WazoO" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> "Maxx Excaliber" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> Tracking URL:
>>>
> http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z933057970z9f2d834e0d06ad7ef38f23648bb19169z
>>> Spamvertised URL:
>>> http://0xd8db5834/photogallery/albums/userpics/10002/images/.phone.php
>>>
>>> SpamCop does not recognize this as a valid URL. I was able to decode it
>>> using a hex2dec convertor on the web. The hex part decodes to
>>> 216.219.88.52. This should go to [email protected] or
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>> As posted in the Forum at
>> http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6285
>> this should have been posted into spamcop or spamcop.help ....
>> spamcop.routing is for where reports end up after a successful parse.
>> I'm crossposting and setting follow-ups to the spamcop
>> newsgroup.
> 
> Follow-up posted in the Forum, brought here to bring this thread
> up to date ..
> 
> From: "SpamCop/Ellen"
> To: "WazoO"
> Subject: Re: URLs encoded as hex
> Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 07:51:00 -0400
> 
> the hex-encoding in the url issue has been added to the bugs list
> 
> Ellen
> SpamCop

Thanks for the follow-up. It is good to know that this may be looked at 
some time in the future, as a good number of phishing scams now employ 
this method.