[SEL] OT- Bit of ebay trickery

Arnie Fero fero_ah at city-net.com
Wed Jul 28 11:50:42 PDT 2004


Ahhhhh, one more of the subtle benefits of using a no mouse needed,
text-based email reader instead of a gooey-graphic one.  8-))

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Peter A Forbes wrote:

> I post this as a warning to everyone about a clever bit of skullduggery that
> came our way today.

<snip>

> The url was in fact a graphic, not straight text, and if you held the mouse
> pointer over it, a different url would show up, with an IP address in the far
> east. So if you clicked normally you wouldn't see the different address, which
> was:



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