Phishing Translators please?

Henry Burbano hburbano at NOVADEVICES.COM
Tue Oct 12 23:15:22 IST 2004


In spanish:

PossibleFraudStart = <font color="red"><b>MailScanner ha detectado
un posible fraude proveniente de
PossibleFraudEnd = </b></font>



Saludos,

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 3:27 AM
Subject: Phishing Translators please?


> Morning folks,
>
> I have written a Phishing fraud detector. It's not 100% perfect, but it
> should detect most of them. We are finding here that the SURBL phishing
> lists are far from complete, and we regularly get these coming through to
> our end-users.
>
> For those of you who don't know what phishing is....
>
> You get an email claiming to be from your bank / credit card company /
> utility company / whatever. It looks like a perfectly genuine email, it
has
> their artwork, disclaimers, everything. There is some text in the message
> inviting you to click on a link in the message. The link looks quite
> normal, e.g. http://www.citibank.com/ or just www.citibank.com. They
> usually look like they want you to confirm security information, or
> re-register your account. But when you click on the link it doesn't take
> you to the bank's real website, it takes you to a plausible-sounding one
> that looks just like your bank's real website, but isn't. You type in
> confidential information of some sort, and the bad guys just managed to
> steal your information. Now they can steal your money and/or identity.
>
> MailScanner detects these and inserts some text into the message to
> highlight the possible fraud, and where it is coming from in reality.
> Please could all you translators out there please translate the following
> text into the language(s) of your choice? Please don't contribute
> translations you aren't 100% sure about, I have no way of telling whose
> translation into Spanish is the best, so probably best to post your
> translations to the list so we can agree on the best ones.
>
> # Used in Phishing Fraud attack detections. The "End" must close all the
> # HTML highlighting done in the "Start".
> PossibleFraudStart = <font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a
> possible fraud attempt from
> PossibleFraudEnd = </b></font>
>
> Thanks all!
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
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> PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
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