On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> The example I gave was taken from a newsletter where the url was
> hidden. Almost all email newsletters that I have seen do the same
> thing. Currently, most of the spam I'm seeing does not attempt to hide
> the url at all.
Not too many spam do that but almost all phish that I've seen do.
The point being that the number of legitimate messages that obfuscate
the URL renders this potential antiphish technique too FP prone to
be trustworthy. (sigh).
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