Re: Amazon phishing scam on Yahoo servers

[Paul Laudanski <zx () castlecops com>]

Excellent then, they got my email and ran with it.  Amazing how fast this 
whole thing was.

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Steve Friedl wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 02:40:41AM -0500, Paul Laudanski wrote:
> > servers, but their Abuse department closed at 5pm.  A full 6 or so hours 
> > to run before they open back up.
>
> Oh yah? Yahoo Paranoids jumped right on this...
>
> $ dig www.user-unlock-amazon.com a 
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.0 <<>> www.user-unlock-amazon.com a
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 13061
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;www.user-unlock-amazon.com.    IN      A
>
> (translation: the domain is dead at the Y! nameservers)
>
> Go Yahoo! :-)
>
> Steve

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