Anti fraud FPs

[Julian Field]

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Well your posting to the list reached me perfectly intact, so that  
would imply that more recent versions do not suffer this problem. The  
phishing net is a constantly changing beast (if a net can be a beast :-)

On 18 Aug 2005, at 00:39, João Gouveia wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We're getting some FPs with the standard "claiming to be" anti  
> fraud message.
> This happens because people send (ham) HTML email messages that
> contain HREFs with content that's beeing wrongly interpreted as a URI.
> Some examples of messages triggering the anti fraud warning
>
> * [a href="http://www.google.com"]This triggers. Info it's beeing
> interpreted as a TL.D.[/a]
>
> * Check this article about [a href="http://www.google.com"]standard
> features of Microsoft .NET[/a]
>
> Is this the standard behaviour for recent versions of MailScanner?
> We're using 4.41.
> Although right now we have only a few complains, I'm thinking about
> turning of this anti-fraud mechanism because I feal it's prone to
> cause too many FPs.
> What does your experience say?
>
> Thanks.
>
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