[SEL] OT- Bit of ebay trickery

[Peter A Forbes]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:50:42 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:

>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.

<another snip>

Yes indeed, although I originally first saw the email at work using the easynet
web-based email service, where its HTML showed up almost normally, but viewing
the source gives the game away, the first url is what does the dirty work the
second url is what you see on-screen:-

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href="http://211.252.9.126/.secure/safeharbor.verify.ebay.com/login.php">
<strong>https://signin.ebay.com/saw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn&UsingSSL=1</strong></a><br>
>         <font size="1">(To complete the verification process you must fill in all the required 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Peter

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