Mailscanner has detected possible fraud

Julian Field jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu May 19 15:28:26 IST 2005


Very simple. The link concerned appears to take you to a page on the
"investor.news.com" website, while really taking you to a page on the
"ct.news.com.com" website.

This is exactly the same trick the scammers use in phishing attacks,
and so MailScanner has (quite rightly) highlighted the fact that the
message is trying to deceive you about the real destination of a link.


On 19 May 2005, at 15:16, Devi Sambamoorthy wrote:

> <CNET NEWS.COM Microsoft offers peek at next Office suite.htm>

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