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fishead · Feb 09, 2005

Funny thing this guy left a link in a post and it takes me to my own website. Can anyone shed some light on this? Seems like my site is being framed. Thats not the first time. BigDaddy framed my site for awhile, and mia.com framed my site for a long time. Surely this guy wouldn't try that when nr and rb and others names are in sight. Whats going on, who did he do this, list his url but takes me to my own website?

http://fisheadcartoons.com/phpBB2/admin/index.php?admin=1&sid=e55813b1 4f468c47b4d33e03259a7043

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

Fishead, can you provide a link to the actual message? Your link above takes us to your Index page...

dontknow

rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

http://fisheadcartoons.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=76

I notice when fishead puts that URL in HIS post it goes to the guys blog.

How did he do that?

dontknow

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

http://fisheadcartoons.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=76

He is phishing my site I think. When people click on my link it will take them to his...? Not yet but thats what he's testing, then he will reverse it later I bet. I read something about frame protection, can't remember, think it was in phpbb help. If I don't add a frame protector I am open to this, but if I get it wrong I will lock people out of my own site.

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

http://www.cyveillance.com/web/online_risks/phishing.htm

Phishing, Pharming, and Identity Theft

Phishing is a popular and growing method of identity theft, typically performed either through email or through the creation of a Web site that appears to represent a legitimate company. Victims are asked to provide personal information such as passwords and credit card numbers in a reply email or at the bogus Web site.

While previously phishers targeted mainly larger financial institutions, these criminals are moving into new areas constantly including credit unions, hotels, and insurance companies.

“Spear phishing” the practice of targeting an attack to a specific group is gaining in sophistication and frequency.

Pharming is a scamming practice in which malicious code is installed on a personal computer or server, misdirecting users to fraudulent Web sites without their knowledge or consent. Pharming has been called "phishing without a lure."

The Federal Trade Commission reports that identity theft now affects more than 10 million people every year representing an annual cost to the economy of $50 billion. The Anti-Phishing Working Group reports that the frequency of these phishing attacks increases 24% every month.

Phishing schemes that are not identified and shut down can bring on devastating financial losses and significantly harm consumer trust.

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

Just curious nr. Seems strange that his url goes to my site. People are scamming others these days by way of using other peoples website identity, like they get paypal data in my websites name. Its pretty scary stuff.

I checked again and he did leave a website -http://www.corecoded.com/
it takes you to a holiday card and tries to install a media player. The otherday I clicked to update my media player in laptop and I got a real nice new player, but it has some other name on it and when I went to msn to update in main pc there is no such update. MSN somehow released rights for companies to download there own players somehow. It happened to my old windows media player also a while back, I got this little icon that has links to a ton of media sites. There is a lot of stuff going on with these players. I'm not really complaining, I really like that media player on laptop, can't remember the brand right now. I bet that player has something to do with what he is testing. Seems phishy anyway.

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

The reason the link goes to your site instead of his is because he made a mistake in the hyperlink URL and left a space in front of the http part of the URL. So the phpBB interpretter just replaced the URL with your own forum link. The guy didn't do that intentionally and he had no control over how phpBB handled the problem. It is clear that his intent was to include a link to his blog, but he screwed up...

munky2

rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

The guy was trying to advertise his blog in his "Test" post. The fact that his link didn't work is a pretty good indicator that he made a mistake. Why would he post a link to his blog that used the phpBB parser to redirect the link back to fishead's forum? That would make no sense at all if it was intentional. The guy only succeeds if you end up on his Blog page after clicking on that link. So it is clearly an accident that he left a space in front of the http in the hyperlink code. That was clearly not the intent...

The reason it worked when fishead reposted it is because he didn't use the HTML hyperlink code for the link. So in fishead's link, clicking on it successfully redirects you to the Blog page just as the poster had intended. Fishead "fixed" the problem by not making the same mistake that the original poster made...

It is still an advertisment for the guy's blog page. That's why the topic should be deleted. There really isn't any more to it than that, so there is no need or reason to make more of it than a silly mistake on the poster's part. Most times, the obvious explanation is the correct one...

munky2