Comments on: eBay/PayPal reported me to the FBI

By: James Stewart

James Stewart — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:38:09 +0000

I just recieved one of these today!

I run a URL forwarding site, http://www.whurl.me – same kinda thing as tinyurl.com, bit.ly and the likes. Its seems some used the service to forward to a paypal phishing site – not my doing – and now i’ve been reported.

Not sure if i should be concerned or not.

By: Theresa

Theresa — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:25:12 +0000

That’s some bullshit right there. You’re trying to inform people that others use this method for attempted rape them and they report you to the FBI? I am sure the government is going to be right on top of addressing this issue considering the snappy job they did with 9/11, or rather “prior to 9/11″.

By: William Ruckman

William Ruckman — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:06:04 +0000

You should just use a .htaccess file to block people from directly linking to your images (hotlinking) without being on your domain.

CODE:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?ghettowebmaster.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(png|gif|jpeg|jpg|tiff|psd|flv|mpg|mpeg|mp3)$ – [NC,F]

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:25:58 +0000

It’s true, “There are simply too many better alternatives.” What’s stopping phishers sending HTML that calls up PayPal’s own hosted logo?

The obvious red-flag in this email is lack of First name and Last name that PayPal always uses to address recipients. You can’t fake that.

By: Gawain

Gawain — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:20:49 +0000

btw the original link is now showing up as

Content contained “Trojan-Spy.HTML.Fraud.gen” virus. Details: Virus: Trojan-Spy.HTML.Fraud.gen; File: No file name available; Sub File: No file name available; Vendor: Kaspersky Labs; Engine error code: 0×00010000; Engine version: 5.0.0.38; Pattern version: 090803.123456.2576864; Pattern date: 2009.08.03 12:34:56

FYI.