Phishing fraud question

[Julian Field]

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At 10:53 14/10/2004, you wrote:
>On Thu, October 14, 2004 9:59, Julian Field said:
> > Here's an excerpt from an abbey national phishing scam.
> >
> >
> > To log into your account, please visit the online banking
> > <http://200.153.201.119:16780/>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud
> > attempt from http://200.153.201.119:16780/<http://200.153.201.119:16780/>
> > http://www.abbey.com
> >
> > If you have questions about your online statement,
> > please send us a Bank Mail or call us at 1-800-374-9700
> >
>How easy would it to make that read some thing like
><http://200.153.201.119:16780/>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud
>attempt from http://200.153.201.119:16780/<http://200.153.201.119:16780/>
>claiming to be http://www.abbey.com
>
>Just thought it might clarify what it is and what it says it is.

Fair point, I guess, it's personal preference. You can just edit the text
in languages.conf if you want to do this. I don't want to have to process
another entire set of translations from everyone for this change, so I will
probably leave this one to you if that's okay.
--
Julian Field
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