VOGONS

Phishing website warning

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First post, by retro games 100

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I was in the process of answering a PM on this Vogons website. I finished writing my message, then clicked on the "send/submit" button, and then IE7 popped up a message box saying that this website was a 'suspicious website', and it was possibly involved in phishing. (Words to that effect.) I didn't click on the PM submit button to send my message. Instead, I wrote this message, to ask for any comments from the Administrators.

Thank you.

Reply 1 of 4, by Qbix

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not a clue. could you post a screenshot ?

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Reply 2 of 4, by retro games 100

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Qbix wrote:

not a clue. could you post a screenshot ?

I went back to the Messages section, and replied twice to a message in order to take a screenshot of the warning message, but the warning did not appear. (Sorry Amigaz, you now have 2 useless messages in your inbox! 🤣 )

However, to see this warning, please go to this website -

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2657

Scroll half way down, and you'll see the pop up with the words "Suspicious website" on it.

Reply 3 of 4, by Qbix

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well vogons doesn't pretend to be another website (=phising)
So that would mean that some other website pretends to be vogons. Try looking at the url of the page you are visiting at the time.
Or IE 7 messed up..

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Reply 4 of 4, by retro games 100

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Qbix wrote:

... Or IE 7 messed up..

The most likely reason! 🤣

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