German Word/Excel Spam

[Billy Pumphrey]

Thank you for the information.  I seen the long talk about phishing but
since I didn't know what it was I ignored it.  Way to go MailScanner picking
up on these already.

Thanks Julian for MailScanner.  FYI:  I bought your MailScanner book to
support your cause, and of course for the humor that you put in it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 3:22 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: German Word/Excel Spam

Matt Kettler wrote:

> At 11:37 AM 11/15/2004, Billy Pumphrey wrote:
>
>> Speaking of ebay.  Anyone getting the spam, looks real, about
>> updating your
>> ebay information along with paypal/credit card and so forth?
>
>
> Yes.. Tons of them, and they aren't new. Other popular targets are
> citibank, and MBNA (major credit card providers).
>
> This scam tactic is called Phishing, and it's been so heavily covered in
> the media it's not really worth covering here. A little googling should
> turn up tons of information. I got 1,360 hits in google news and 10k in
> google groups (although only 875 of these remain after "duplicate"
> elimination).
>
Also worth a quick mention for
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/phishing.html
as MailScanner successfully detects quite a few of these scams in the
latest version (with the updated Message.pm file added to it that I have
posted here).

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