IP phishing false positive

Mark Nienberg mark at TIPPINGMAR.COM
Fri Apr 15 17:47:29 IST 2005


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MailScanner is warning about phishing fraud for links that contain IP
addresses even if the IP address matches the display text.
<http://192.168.254.43>Example:

MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "192.168.1.1"
claming to be http://192.168.1.1

MailScanner 4.40.11-1

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Mark Nienberg, SE
Tipping Mar + associates
1906 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704
http://www.tippingmar.com

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