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    Posted: 22 December 2005 at 8:40am
Man, these scammers are getting more sophisticated.

A few days ago I got a scam eBay mail about a Sony camera. Today, I got this scammail:
This is John with the camera. I noticed that you picked up the money, it has been 2 days and I haven't received the package, what's next? Are you scamming me ? Please respond ASAP!
It looked just like a regular eBay inquiry.

Let your less savvy friends & family know just in case.
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tell him F off!! LOL

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I got an eBay phishing scame the other day asking me to update my credit card details (obvious scame).

Anyway, just to have a look I clicked the link and instead of the normal dodgy URL at the top, the scammer actually took you to a site that opened a Java Applet that appeared to look like eBay in your browser with the correct URL's in the fake navigation bar.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote huwnet Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 December 2005 at 3:36pm
Did you hear about the javascript trick a while ago that made a new window with now toolbars and then positioned itself over the address bar so that it could mimic the URL.

I use Mozilla Thunderbird for my mail and whatever trick they use for fake URLS does not work. It opens in the real URL because of its built in phising protection
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I've been using Thunderbird for a while, mainly due to it's built in spam filters as I get around 400+ spam emails aday. I find the spam filter in Thunderbird is better than ones that I have paid over $80 a year for.

I also like it's improved security and the fact now in the new version, it finally underlines spelling mistakes as you write them.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote huwnet Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 December 2005 at 9:16pm
Originally posted by -boRg- -boRg- wrote:

I've been using Thunderbird for a while, mainly due to it's built in spam filters as I get around 400+ spam emails aday. I find the spam filter in Thunderbird is better than ones that I have paid over $80 a year for.

I also like it's improved security and the fact now in the new version, it finally underlines spelling mistakes as you write them.


Indeed. The only problem I am having with Thunderbird issues is timeouts on mail accounts.

First of all I though it was my spam filter delaying things.

However it also happens on my non spam-filtered accounts.

Opera Mail has no timeouts but I don't like opera mail Ouch.

-borg- you should try out spampal. It checks all mail on international spam blacklists before forwarding them to thunderbird. In the new 1.5 version of Thunderbird it supports spampal headers and automatically forwards that mail to the junk folder.

Maybe you should give spampal a try as it is free.

It has all the same features as spam assasin although I only check blacklists so that it does not block other e-mail that I may want.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Bluefrog Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 December 2005 at 9:39pm
I've been thinking about switching from ThunderBird to The Bat! after hearing about a couple people losing all their email in ThunderBird. Or maybe Pocomail... I just don't have time to compare the 2 at the moment - Anyone here ever compared the 2?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote MadDog Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 December 2005 at 9:50pm
I wish i could take the spam filters from Thunderbird and and import them into my mail server.

My mail server hardly catches spam but Thunderbird gets most of them.
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