Phishing fraud question

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Oct 14 09:31:35 IST 2004


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I want your opinion.

When things like scripts and forms are detected in emails, they are just
quietly disarmed without any subject line tagging at all.

Should I do the same with phishing fraud attempts? The warning in the
message will be put in right next to the offending link.

It's just that phishing detection does detect quite a few false positives
due to the stupidity of a lot of newsletter authors who put "fake" links in
their material. I don't want people to become used to seeing "{Dangerous
Content?}" or whatever, and therefore ignoring it.

I have tagged the subject line so far, and I think it is already starting
to cause problems. I am tending towards removing the subject tag.

Any thoughts please?
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