mip: mail fraud? Anybody seen this?

[Rick Cooper]

That looks to be a MusicIP link see:

http://www.musicip.com/mixer/mipprotocol.jsp 

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 > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On 
 > Behalf Of Julian Field
 > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:22 PM
 > To: MailScanner discussion
 > Subject: Re: mip: mail fraud? Anybody seen this?
 > 
 > If anyone else can tell me what mip: is, I'll think about 
 > adding it to 
 > the phishing net so it gets ignored as a URL.
 > 
 > On 11/11/08 16:42, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
 > > Julian,
 > >
 > > First, I hope that you and your various internal organs are doing 
 > > reasonably well.
 > >
 > > I got pinged by a user today who asked "why did this copied
 > > reply get munged up by MailScanner?"
 > >
 > >> From: <MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt 
 > from "mip:"
 > >> claiming to be xxx at aol.com <mip://0b04f618/xxx@aol.com> >
 > >> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:14:40 EST
 > >> To: <MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt 
 > from "mip:" 
 > >> claiming
 > >> to be yyy at upanewtonma.org <mip://0b04f618/yyy@upanewtonma.org>
 > >
 > > and so on for all of the other email addresses in the quoted reply.
 > > I would guess that the mip: construct is something that an AOL MTA
 > > or mail client added.  I googled for it and found zilch.  Anybody
 > > else seen this?
 > >
 > > BTW: running MS 4.72.5-1 on Solaris 10.
 > >
 > > Jeff Earickson
 > > Colby College
 > >
 > 
 > Jules
 > 
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 > PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
 > PGP public key: http://www.jules.fm/julesfm.asc
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