Re: Anti-spoof feature request

On Wed 18 May 2005 05:39, Andy Pieters wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Due to the increase in spoofing atempts for PayPal, Ebay, Online
> banking, and others, I noticed that for the most part they trick
> users in pressing links that claim to go to the real site while they
> are going to a spoof site.
>
> They are like this:
>
> <a href="http://othersite.com/www.paypal.com/blablabal";>
>       https://www.paypal.com/login
> </a>
>
> Could you implement a feature that scans the contents of a hyperlink
> and if it detects inconsistency, displays something to inform the
> user.  Like it could check if it contains an url that is different
> from what is specified in the href attribute.

I'd go so far as to say that this isn't needed with KMail at this point 
in time - I just hover over the link and look in the status bar at the 
lower left; inevitably the URL shown there is different from the 
apparent one.

Furthermore, since KMail defaults to not displaying HTML email as such, 
the spoofs are even easier to spot (if you receive HTML email on a 
regular basis from a certain sender then just create a folder that 
allows HTML to be displayed and then create a filter to move it there).

Regards,
-- 
David P James
Ottawa, Ontario
http://david.jamesnet.ca
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