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Dorkmaster

Anyone with web skillz wanna hunt a phisher?

**Posted:** Tue May 10, 2005 11:28 pm

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addlepated

Most of the time a phisher or spammer is going to be using an open proxy, and his own IP is not on the email. If it looks like it's originating from BYU, chances are they didn't secure one of their machines well enough. Confused

**Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 12:21 am

Dorkmaster

It was in the header info. It was not the "reply-to" person. I would also assume that it was an enslaved server that spit out the message, but I just figured it was interesting and if there was a group of people who could figure out who was behind it, it would be the unfiction-ites.

**Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 3:20 pm

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addlepated

Well, it's possible you got a stupid phisher (and a "smart phisher" might be an oxymoron, but I digress) who didn't bother to obfuscate their originating IP. Sometimes www.spamcop.net is helpful in reading headers - might try running it through there?

**Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 7:00 pm

weephun

Having studied in said dept at BYU, I would suggest contacting them too. They are quite careful about keeping track of who is logged into what server when, etc. etc. They are also very anti-spam phish, etc and would more than likely be very interested in helping you track down where and who this came from.

**Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 7:57 pm

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Dorkmaster

weephun, I apologize it took so long for me to respond to this, but for some reason, this thread didn't "light up" when it held new messages... oh well...

But thanks, I did in fact (same day I got the phishing email) contact the webmaster, who in turn has notified the head of those who oversee the maintenance of the technology at BYU. They were very good in getting back to me to let me know they were on the case. Cool

**Posted:** Tue May 24, 2005 5:24 pm

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vpisteve

Here ya go, Dorkmaster, you're not alone:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050525/323/fjrgo.html

**Posted:** Thu May 26, 2005 12:13 pm

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