Resolve 3289355434

[Michelle Konzack]

Hey,

I am advanced analphabet and can allready six letters...

    http://B40F94AA:82/webscr/index.php

works too.

Greetings
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


Am 2006-03-14 15:31:51, schrieb Jeff Lightner:
> What!?  Next you'll be telling me the bank account info I sent to the
> Nigerian that wants to pay me a fee for allowing him to park $7 Million
> in my account was for a scam too.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of John Hascall
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 3:11 PM
> To: tom; comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Cc: abuse at mail.lionshare.co.za; postmaster at mail.lionshare.co.za
> Subject: Re: Resolve 3289355434 
> 
> 
> > I received a phishing scam email recently.  No news there, but one
> > thing that caught me off guard was the URL given in the email:
> > http://3289355434:82/webscr/index.php
> > I am not sure I understand how the domain 3289355434 can resolve to an
> > IP, but it does.
> > There is no TLD in that domain - could someone explain to me how that
> > works?
> 
> It doesn't resolve to an IP because it is an IP address, albeit
> in a form you don't see very often (except in this kind of scam).
> 
> > traceroute 3289355434
> traceroute to 3289355434 (196.15.148.170), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
>  1  router-129-186-144-0.iastate.edu (129.186.145.254)  1 ms  0 ms  1 ms
>          ...
> 15  lipco-brokers-gw.telkom-ipnet.co.za (196.25.251.202)  330 ms  331 ms
> 329 ms
> 16  mail.lionshare.co.za (196.15.148.170)  332 ms  331 ms  332 ms
> 
> I rather doubt that paypal operates a server at
> some legal services company in South Africa.
> In my opinion, they've probably been "owned".
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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