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Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing
From: Sven Olaf Kamphuis <sven () cb3rob net>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:15:28 +0000 (UTC)
That's why I recommend that banks et.al. don't put *any* URLs in their messages. If they make this an explicit policy and pound it into the heads of their customers that ANY message containing a URL is not from them, and that they should always use their bookmarks to get to the bank's site, then they're training their customers to be phish-resistant.
they do, and the next thing you know, someone in marketing sends out an email with an url -anyway-.
considering the fact that banks don't seem to like to be contacted by emails nor get replies (noreply@...) i'd strongly suggest them not to use crappy obsolete SMTP at all but rather present the users with their messages they don't want to distribute by paper mail -after- logging into their online banking system, where they can use all the html, links, flash *kuch* etc they want.
---rsk
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- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing, (continued)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Sven Olaf Kamphuis (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Masataka Ohta (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Masataka Ohta (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Adrian (Feb 10)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 10)
- RE: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Vinny_Abello (Feb 10)
- RE: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Keith Medcalf (Feb 11)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Vinny Abello (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Rich Kulawiec (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Sven Olaf Kamphuis (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Sven Olaf Kamphuis (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing John Levine (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing Vinny Abello (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing John Levine (Feb 12)
- Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing John Levine (Feb 12)