Re: [ihc] Fake E-bay

[Richard Welty <rwelty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:28:35 -0600 Binder <Binder@domain.elided> wrote:

> Yup... I received one a few weeks ago... As you described.  Close
> examination of the snmp header - of the one I received - revealed a Korean
> or Russian domain.  They get an "A" for effort.

the current generation of phishing email is quite impressive; they're getting
very slick. basically, don't trust anything you get from a bank, credit
card company, ebay or paypal via email.

a minor nit: you mean SMTP ("Simple Mail Transport Protocol"), not SNMP
("Simple Network Monitoring Protocol".)

cheers,
   richard (who knows entirely too much about both SMTP and SNMP)
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