Re: A new spamming tactic?

From: David Law <david.law_at_sre.u-net.com>
Date: Fri 11 Feb 2000 17:37:02 +0000

PHILIP MAK WROTE:
> Someone seems to have developed a new (or old but not
> well-known?) tactic for spamming. Recently, I received
> an unsolicited e-mail telling me to go to this address
> (note: it works in IE but not Netscape)
>
> http://%33%349%33%32%38%36%32%382
>
> I can't figure out how to trace that site. Thus, they
> are protected from complaints to their ISP except from
> very skilled people. Anyone know something about this,
> and how the heck does that URL work?

Similar to "scrambling" e-mail addresses on web sites
to avoid them being harvested by spammers ..

http://emailaddresses.com/mailto_encoder.htm

David Law




Received on Fri Feb 11 2000 - 11:37:02 CST