over zealous phishing warnings

hermit921 hermit921 at YAHOO.COM
Wed Nov 16 16:59:11 GMT 2005


I receive a well respected email newsletter called Crypto-gram.  It
contains many links to the sender's web site for more detailed
information. Below are some of the warnings I get.  How literal are the
phishing specifications?

hermit921


 MailScanner has detected a possible fraud
attempt from
 "
www.schneier.com" 
claiming to be
 <
http://www.schneier.com>

MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "www.counterpane.com" claiming to be  MailScanner
has detected a possible fraud attempt from
 "www.counterpane.com" 
claiming to be

 <
http://www.counterpane.com>


MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt
from
 "
www.schneier.com" 
claiming to be

 <
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram.html>




MailScanner has detected a possible fraud
attempt from

 "
www.schneier.com" 

claiming to be

 <
http://www.schneier.com/blog>.  





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