Chimple

After checking my junk mail account, I came across a phishing mail. It amuses me to log onto them with abusive messages, so I did....

Just out of curiosity, I entered the IP address into a browser...it came up with an XAMPP page which is unsecured!

Are there any hacker type people who'd like a look?

powerman1

if everyone did the same it would really p1ss the scammers off..nice one

Chimple

I doubt they are all that stupid, I have reported the email address to gmail though, maybe they wont be able to get any info after all!

cottonfoo

You may well have just confirmed your email address works by doing that

Chimple

From looking at the source, it seems that it just takes the info from the webpage and sends it to the gmail account, I didnt use mine at all!

cottonfoo

If there is any kind of unique-looking letter/number combination in the URL that you clicked on, that could be linked to the email address it was sent to. The best thing to do is just delete them without opening

Hanley

He didn't actually say he clicked on the link, he entered the IP address into a browser session.

So it can't link to his e-mail address.

GC8

Theyre mostly sent from Nigerian internet cafes so it wont make a deal of difference.