Fight Phishing From The Unix Or Linux Command Line

Jun 30, 2008, 22:00 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Mike Tremell)

[ Thanks to Mike Golvach for this link. ]

"I prefer to use PhishTank since they have a very easy email submission process... which works whether or not you're sending them phishing information from your PC email client or from your Linux or Unix box (or any box that you may not have actually "received" the message on -- more below).

"This is where the Linux and Unix command line comes into play. While you can easily forward an email from your mail client of choice to phish@phishtank.com (Not a mailto link on purpose), you will almost always lose some vital information in the forwarding. Instead I prefer to do the following: ""

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