If spammers can abuse something, they gonna abuse it

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itOP
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    9 months ago

    it’s a valid name but it shouldn’t add the hyperlink… wait a moment…

    *** went to check the source of the emails that i received ***

    the senders (i’m targeted by an asshole that did this on hundreds on sites) DIDN’T add any hyperlink, this is a huge security issue by gmail: they’re automatically adding hyperlinks! This is very stupid, especially with the new google domains .zip and .mov. Someone sends an email like “attached there’s bank-statement.zip” and then gets phished

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      9 months ago

      You’ve landed on this page because you followed a link for a .zip file. This domain was registered to prevent its misuse for potentially harmful or malicious activities.

      Well, what do ya know. There’s still some good guys out there.

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I was just going to point out that it’s the responsibility of the email service to filter that as well.

      It was a big bug ticket at my company, that our email service kept automatically turning plaintext to links like www.example.com for convenience. We couldn’t fix it on our side at all.

      Edit: lol either Lemmy or my Lemmy app also turns plaintext links into real links! www.Rofl.lol

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      9 months ago

      Email clients and web browsers making anything that vaguely looks like a link clickable is nothing new.