Feature Request: Phishing

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Jan 18 14:03:18 GMT 2005


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I purposely didn't do that as there is an inevitable false alarm rate. I
don't even tag the Subject: line. Having a valid (false positive) link
removed would annoy my users very quickly!

Roger Jochem wrote:

>I'd would like to have a way of "disarming" phishing frauds from the e-mail
>instead of warning the user about it.  Could it be done? Something like
>removing the <a href...> from the e-mail, disabling the fraud. Even warning
>my users, some of them open the link. Maybe because they're curious about
>it... Is it possible?
>
>
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