Beware of Fake Link Blog

I’ve found several emails that send link to my email through mailing list. I’m suspicious that the link in the email message is fake. The characteristics of the email are:

1. The email has No Subject. In several mail client you will find subject (unknown).
2. No message but blog link only. The link is like shown below:
   http://wakleng.wordpres.us/2010/08/about-my.html
   Notice that the domain is wordpres.us. It imitates the famous blog service, WordPress. The real WordPress has two “s”, the fake one has only one “s”.  The real one has top level domain .com or .org, but the fake one use .us.
3. The sub domain name “wakleng” comes from the sender email address. And it is usually yahoo (in my observation).

I’ve googled (September 13rd, 2010) keyword wordpress.us, but found none. I thought this is a new method (I never found like this before – using name wordpres). I found this for the first time at Sept 8th, 2010. Becareful before clicking link from others, eventough from your friend.

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