Forum: Suggestion Box


Subject: No More Renderosity Rip Off E-mails

egaeus opened this issue on May 21, 2010 ยท 58 posts


Khai-J-Bach posted Fri, 21 May 2010 at 5:40 PM

you miss-understand what happened then,

in the email I mouse over the link it says "

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/emarket/goto/217288/720/2599857/"

but clicking the link you goto 

http://www.footagefirm.com/freehdlooping10.html?utm_source=Renderosity&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Renderosity&AID=408

now to security firms such as Sophos, Norton etc, and banks, this is a Phishing Attack.

it's what they warn us to look out for in fake emails.

suggesting otherwise.. I just don't know what to think of the site.

infact to quote

"

Link manipulation

Most methods of phishing use some form of technical deception designed to make a link in an e-mail (and the spoofed website it leads to) appear to belong to the spoofed organization. Misspelled URLs or the use of subdomains are common tricks used by phishers. In the following example URL, http://www.yourbank.example.com/, it appears as though the URL will take you to the example section of the yourbank website; actually this URL points to the "yourbank" (i.e. phishing) section of the example website. Another common trick is to make the anchor text for a link appear to be valid, when the link actually goes to the phishers' site. The following example link, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genuine, appears to take you to an article entitled "Genuine"; clicking on it will in fact take you to the article entitled "Deception". In the lower left hand corner of most browsers you can preview and verify where the link is going to take you.[29]"