New Phishing Technique

[t3knomanser]

I just received an email claiming to be from Washington Mutual Online, doing the standard "you need to log in". Instead of giving me a domain name made to look like one that could possibly be for a banking firm, the phisher supplied a case number: "0xD2.0x8D.0xDF.0x4B". They then used that case number in the URL, like so: "0xD2.0x8D.0xDF.0x4B/

Comments

Thanks for posting this

[evalynne]

I am really glad you posted this. I *just* got this same email and since it is the first phish that got through my spam filter, I thought I'd google it before doing anything else. You just saved me at least 30 minutes :-)
So, you have done your good deed for the day for a stranger, no less (which must count for 2 good deeds, *somewhere*, right?)

e-l

[muneco]

I've seen them do similar things, my favorite was:

http://www.53.com.login.secure.spammerDN.com/blah

for a fifth third phishing scam. The hex bit is new though.