paul_venezia
Senior Contributing Editor

Who are these people?

analysis
Aug 14, 20032 mins

I am simply amazed that 1) Someone thought this would work. 2) They're probably right. Ads are one thing, pure fraud is quite another. The original email was base64 encoded HTML, with the form post calling http://secure.fethard.biz/clients/login.jsp. The domain fethard.biz has been pulled by the registrar as a spamming domain. From: Fethard-biz Manager Date: Thu Aug 14, 2003 09:01:06 US/Eastern To: pvenezia@jpj.

I am simply amazed that

1) Someone thought this would work.

2) They’re probably right.

Ads are one thing, pure fraud is quite another. The original email was base64 encoded HTML, with the form post calling http://secure.fethard.biz/clients/login.jsp. The domain fethard.biz has been pulled by the registrar as a spamming domain.

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