Comments on: Welcome to PhishTank

By: MarineDoc

MarineDoc — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:28:45 +0000

Congrats on getting up and going with the “tank”.
I’m sure that sygyzy and I are not the only ones who don’t fully understand the concept of redirecting an email. I use Outlook 2003 and
I don’t see anything about redirect. What am I missing.
Doc

By: mathinker

mathinker — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:16:03 +0000

Good job!

I politely suggest, however, that you add a password confirmation box to your registration
form, so that those of us who like to choose complicated passwords can be more certain we
actually typed what we meant to type.

Thanks for all the (ID’d) phish!

By: firx

firx — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:59:41 +0000

Hello, thank you and good luck Alison and all at PhishTank. May this tank of yours run dry for all
the right reasons. (And [excuse me Alison] many thanks also to you Michael for your fine help
above; some of us ain’t that wise.

-Nick

By: Michael Clark

Michael Clark — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 19:16:47 +0000

Redirecting mail lets you forward the mail, but it will look as if it came from the original sender. Eudora adds a new header to the From: header that says (by way of Your Name). The huge advantage is the original detailed headers ar eincluded, so future analysis can be done. Which is exactly why you should redirect your mail instead of forward your mail to the Phishtank.

Eudora has a “Redirect” option in the Message menu. I would hope other mail clients have a similar option. I’ve seen it called “jumping.” Most webmail clients don’t have an obvious way to redirect. So you’d need to open the message, view the headers and do a copy and paste into a new message. But then the message would be from you, not from the original scammer.

By: sygyzy

sygyzy — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:28:20 +0000

Paul, I have no idea what they meant. I have never ‘redirected’ email. Why don’t you attempt to be helpful rather than make fun of others?

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:39:14 +0000

.. you know what they meant sygyzy, don’t be wise about it.

By: sygyzy

sygyzy — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:11:12 +0000

It’d be nice if you explained how to redirect email. I am pretty certain many people know how to forward and reply but not redirect emails.

By: Urda

Urda — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:09:38 +0000

Woot! Time to improve the opendns.com services and help the general public internet! Let the anti-phising begin!

-Urda

By: ExistDifferently.com

ExistDifferently.com — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:28:00 +0000

Toss some Phish in the Tank!…

Created by the guys of OpenDNS goodness, PhishTank is a new site that lets you submit emails you’ve received and lets the community verify whether or not the phishing site is working, and if so it lets application developers query to see if a pa…

By: PhishTank Is Here at T. Longren

PhishTank Is Here at T. Longren — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:18:58 +0000

[...] PhishTank launched today. PhishTank is a site designed to make keeping tabs on phishing sites easier. If you come across a phishing site while browsing the web, you’re encouraged to submit the URL to PhishTank. PhishTank is a collaborative clearing house for data and information about phishing on the Internet. Also, PhishTank provides an open API for developers and researchers to integrate anti-phishing data into their applications at no charge. [...]