RE: Red Cross Fraud

From: Brian Morin (brianat_private)
Date: Sun Sep 16 2001 - 16:45:48 PDT

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    Now it might, but perhaps at the time it was pointing to something else.
    Someone probably shut this down PDQ.
    
    -- Brian Morin
    
    : -----Original Message-----
    : From: Akatosh [mailto:akatoshat_private] 
    : Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 13:33
    : To: Firehose
    : Cc: incidentsat_private
    : Subject: Re: Red Cross Fraud
    : 
    : 
    : 
    : mabe I'm missing something, but what is fraudulant about 
    : this? The url's appear to redirect to the real websites.
    : 
    : [akatosh@hope akatosh]$ wget -q -O index1.html 
    : "http://RedCross.ym0.net/re3.asp?C=29905&P=68339&E=1113263"
    : [akatosh@hope akatosh]$ wget -q -O index2.html 
    : "http://www.redcross.org" [akatosh@hope akatosh]$ diff -s 
    : index1.html index2.html Files index1.html and index2.html are 
    : identical [akatosh@hope akatosh]$
    : 
    : they don't even throw a banner add at you before they redirect
    : 
    : On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Firehose wrote:
    : 
    : > This criminal fraud originated from IP 64.37.207.81.
    : >
    : > I changed ".com" to ".Zcom" (except for my own email address) and 
    : > ".net" to ".Znet" to protect any of you running vulnerable mail 
    : > readers.
    : >
    : > Spread the word that there will be others doing this (with 
    : different 
    : > IPs and URLs).  Sigh.
    : >
    : > Thanks,
    : >
    : > Bob Toxen, CTO
    : > Fly-By-Day Consulting, Inc.       "Experts in Linux & Unix security"
    : > bobat_private
    : > hoseat_private [bulk security email]
    : > http://www.cavu.com
    : > http://www.realworldlinuxsecurity.com/ [My 5* book: Real 
    : World Linux 
    : > Security] Quality Linux & UNIX security and software 
    : consulting since 
    : > 1990.
    : > -------------------- criminally fraudulent email follows 
    : ----------------
    : > Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 04:26:17 -0500
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