Re: URL switching in e-mails

[Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>]

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 17:15:58 CST, Alan Amesbury said:
> Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
>
> > That's why the Slashdot code would output "[xycum.com]" which would hopefull
y
> > look suspicious to the user... ;)
>
> Ah, I misunderstood; I thought it would display the entire hostname.
> Yes, displaying 2ld.tld would probably tip off most users.

Of course, it's not perfect - lots of banks outsource much of their IT,
with the end result that the URL for the "real" bank is 'www.foo-bank.com',
but the actual targets are 'foo-bank-hosting.serverfarm.com' or similar, at
which point you have to figure out if 'serverfarm.com' is a "real" outsource
or a fake one....

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