[OT - AIM] Disguised URL's In AIM's and Counterfeit Pay Pal Emails

[peter at thescirocco.com (Peter)]

Check this AIM message out, and it's happened several times before, from
other unknown senders:

vwdubnut85:  should i put these pictures of us on myspace or facebook? 
http://photobucket.com/NewPictures/pic20.jpg

thesciroccocom: Nice try: http://download.pinkiespalace.net/picture01.pif

I clicked to show the hyperlink, and this is what the seemingly harmless
photobucket URL actually is:
http://download.pinkiespalace.net/picture01.pif

This is probably nothing, but when the url is disguised, it makes me
suspicious. 
In the past .jpg's have turned into .exe's and so on.

This is also really common with all the Pay Pal spoofs;
[mailto:spoof@paypal.com]


Peter
http://thescirocco.com/

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