On Thursday, September 30, 2004, 1:23:02 PM, Joe Wein wrote:
FP: smithbarney.com
Domain Name: SMITHBARNEY.COM... Name Server: NS2.NSROOT2.COM Name Server: NS1.NSROOT1.COM ... Creation Date: 18-nov-1994
Ten years old and, of course, no SBL hits on the name servers. The age alone should virtually guarantee it from being excluded.
That's one nice thing about phishing URLs: The ham and the spam domains tend to neatly fall into two categories, (very) old and very new (<7 days).
Joe
I've whitelisted: smithbarney.com .
Thanks for the research Rob, Chris and Joe.
BTW, please feel free to whitelist these obvious ones immediately if I'm not around.
(Smith Barney is obvious to us U.S. folks who have been bombarded with their (legitimate) financial services advertising for like 30 years. Some of our companies have probably used them also.)
Jeff C. -- "If it appears in hams, then don't list it."