{"id":41,"date":"2005-10-10T07:50:21","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T07:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.246\/~wisecon1\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2005-10-10T07:50:21","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T07:50:21","slug":"high_quality_sp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"High Quality Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Spam1\"<\/a>This morning I got a notice from Chase Bank that my account had been accessed from a different location.  Could I please go to their website and verify my identity?  Considering I that I haven’t banked at Chase in at least 5 years it seemed a wee bit suspicious.  My gut told me it was spam, but what did the message itself tell me?
The source code concealed as much as it revealed, but my inquiry showed me how these new fangled criminals cover their tracks.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I told my trusty "Mail" program to reveal the original source of the
\nmessage so I could see where it actually came from.  It certainly
\nwasn’t from Chase.  Examining the source told me a few things:<\/p>\n

\n* Columbia University rates incoming messages with a spam score–not
\nsure how Apple Mail uses it, but this got a spam score of 7.4\/10 and
\nwas tagged "CU_PHISHY"<\/p>\n

\n* To make the mail look authentic they rely upon images from the Chase website itself.  <\/p>\n

\n* The site they want you to click on resides in China–
\nhttp:\/\/www.langoit.com.cn  The attached image of the site provides a
\nserious hint that they’re Phishing–it doesn’t use the actual chase
\nURL, rather a number.  \"Spamsite\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n* I tried to find out who owned those domain names by doing a simple
\n"Whois" search –both the mailer and the site in China–I wasn’t able
\nto learn anything other than that these folks own a bunch of domains.
\nNo physical addresses there.<\/p>\n

\nI reported the Spam to Chase but how do you fight this new form of
\ncrime?  It must require strong coordination of different law
\nenforcement agencies in different countries and cost a good deal of
\nmoney.  It preys on the ignorance of users and their trust–and makes
\nus all worse off.  The Internet–so many new possibilities, so many yet
\nto be imagined–some wonderful, some not so good.  As my soon to be 95
\nyear old grandmother often counsels, "be good, and if you can’t be
\ngood, be careful."  Good advice, regardless of context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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