Phishing fraud question

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Oct 15 09:05:21 IST 2004


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At 07:35 15/10/2004, you wrote:
>On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:04:45 +0100, Julian Field wrote:
> > I don't want to remove the link as it may well be a false positive. Users
> > will be really annoyed if their newsletters break just because I didn't
> > like the look of a link that was actually safe. This occurs in emails from
> > Egg (UK internet bank) for example.
>
>Have you considered adding a whitelist, i.e. domains known to generate
>false positives? Or can this be achieved with a ruleset on the option
>that configures whether or not this behaviour is enabled?

Precisely, just use a ruleset.
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