[cap-talk] google alerts phishing

[stay]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:01 PM, John Carlson
<john.carlson3 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Here's is an email I got that I think is a valid google alert for
> comparison.  It looks like google is sending it.  I clicked on the link in
> the previous email 3 times and got different results each time.  Here is the
> included link.  Perhaps the link is designed to get google alerts by
> "copying" other links on the internet?  Not sure yet.  Here's the link
> again:
>
> http://miami-saxony.molod.bee.pl/pyramid-electrical-generator.html
>
> John
>

Turns out the alert is valid, though the page is spammy.  The spambot
found this guy's page:
  http://www.orwant.com/eggg.html
and combined a bunch of phrases from it together with some other crap,
apparently dynamically.  I'll forward the link to the abuse team.
-- 
Mike Stay
stay at google.com