http://whall.org/blog/2007/09/12/ebay-message-scam-theyre-getting-good/ Come on in and stay a while... laugh a little. Maybe even think. Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:38:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://whall.org/blog/2007/09/12/ebay-message-scam-theyre-getting-good/comment-page-1/#comment-31535 whall Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:32:17 +0000 http://whall.org/blog/2007/09/12/ebay-message-scam-theyre-getting-good/#comment-31535 <b>Sue</b>, yep, and EVERY link in the whole thing was the same - that fa.html piece. You'd think anti-virus vendors would catch on to that a little better. And then of course, the spammers would catch onto that a little better too, and make each link slightly different than the last, but they'd use a rewrite mod to have them go all to the same place. In fact, I'm surprised more spammers don't use MD5 hashes in their URL's since a lot of valid email marketing campaigns do. Sue, yep, and EVERY link in the whole thing was the same – that fa.html piece. You’d think anti-virus vendors would catch on to that a little better. And then of course, the spammers would catch onto that a little better too, and make each link slightly different than the last, but they’d use a rewrite mod to have them go all to the same place. In fact, I’m surprised more spammers don’t use MD5 hashes in their URL’s since a lot of valid email marketing campaigns do.

]]> http://whall.org/blog/2007/09/12/ebay-message-scam-theyre-getting-good/comment-page-1/#comment-31526 sue Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:25:32 +0000 http://whall.org/blog/2007/09/12/ebay-message-scam-theyre-getting-good/#comment-31526 Yikes. Thanks for the warning. Yikes. Thanks for the warning.

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