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URGENT Message from AOL Member Services
27th May 2004

please forward any scams you've received to spoof@millersmiles.co.uk


Report Summary
Date Reported
10th & 27th May 2004
Apparent Sender
AOL
Return Address
UpdateRep@aol.com <UpdateRep@aol.com>
Subject
URGENT Message from AOL Member Services
Format
HTML
Method
a link which utilises AOL's own redirection script leads to bogus web content
Bogus Web Content?
Yes
URL of web content
http://dynamic.aol.com/cgi/redir?http://supportcenter.8k.com- resolves to web space provided by freeservers OR http://dynamic.aol.com/cgi/redir?http://centersupport.8m.com/ - resolves to a web host in the USA.
RISK LEVEL
HIGH
WARNINGS

1. This is bad news for AOL users who will believe that they are entering a genuine AOL web page from not just the link text, but the momentary appearance of a genuine AOL URL in the browser address bar just before AOL's script redirects users to the forged web page (page removed already, but will no doubt re-appear, and the loophole, if not closed, will be used time and time again).

 

AOL users are at high risk from this forged AOL email which uses their own redirect script to send users from the AOL domain to a forged web page ...

 

This is a big concern to us - you can construct a URL using AOL's redirect script (http://dynamic.aol.com/cgi/redir?) to send users' browsers to any other web page or domain. The true URL would show once the page had loaded, but many will be duped by this loophole in AOL's system.

The bogus content has been removed very quickly, but it wont be long before another Phisher picks up this little trick and distributes more emails with similarly constructed links in them.

 

The Spoof Email ...

URGENT Message from AOL Member Services

 

The bogus web page ...

URGENT Message from AOL Member Services

 

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