Phishing fraud question

[Drew Marshall]

On Thu, October 14, 2004 9:31, Julian Field said:
> 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.
>
I agree. I warning in line just to highlight that this link doesn't go to
where it says will be adequate. After all the message it's self is not
really any danger at all. It's the strange desire to provide every last
item of presonal data including (But not limited to) inside leg
measurements and nocternal habits to complete strangers that is the
dangerous bit.

My 2p anyway.

Drew


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