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RE: (not really a) Proposal to anti-phishing
From: "Wall, Kevin" <Kevin.Wall () qwest com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:28:45 -0600
Mike Andrews writes...
I remember doing a quiz on phishing some time ago. After much
digging,
here's a link to the quiz (version 2) http://survey.mailfrontier.com/survey/quiztest.html Sorry, it doesn't give any results of the survey - perhaps someone
could
email the company and ask about the results, especially which ones
people
didn't get.
Of course, the "quiz" is pretty much useless. There are some obvious phishing attempts, but the few that look (are?) legitimate, one can't really tell because all they give you is an image, so you can't really see what the links are pointing to or do a 'view source', etc. Of course, the point should be one should ALWAYS go to the the web site directly to type in the appropriate URL (if they know what it is; otherwise look up their site on a search engine and then type it in). But IMHO, I think that HTML e-mail should be outlawed, period. That alone might go a long way to eliminating a lot of phishing schemes, especially the ones that rely on bugs in the MUA's HTML rendering engine to entice the victims. -kevin wall
Current thread:
- RE: (not really a) Proposal to anti-phishing Evans, Arian (Jan 19)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: (not really a) Proposal to anti-phishing Scott, Richard (Jan 23)
- Re: (not really a) Proposal to anti-phishing Rishi Pande (Jan 24)
- RE: (not really a) Proposal to anti-phishing Mike Andrews (Jan 24)
- Re: (not really a) Proposal to anti-phishing Rishi Pande (Jan 24)
- RE: (not really a) Proposal to anti-phishing Wall, Kevin (Jan 24)
- RE: (not really a) Proposal to anti-phishing Mike Andrews (Jan 24)
- Re: (not really a) Proposal to anti-phishing Rishi Pande (Jan 24)
- RE: (not really a) Proposal to anti-phishing Scovetta, Michael V (Jan 24)