HTML in Pocket Outlook

[Guest fraser]

Hey all,

Got a worrying email the other day. It was a very well done phishing scam for a bank I don't have an account with. Phishing is an email scam where someone emails you asking for you to do something on your account. They provide a link to login, which will log your username and password if you fall for it.

Initially, phishing would be a bit obvious as the link would not be at the back/e-retailers website. However, they got better at it and now there are a number of ways to "spoof" a URL so that the link appears genuine, as does the address shown in the browser.

This one had a perfectly spoofed link that worked on the PPC Outlook. I didn't think it was possible to display HTML in the email viewer, but aparently it is. I've looked at the raw message on the server and it contains "text/html" content only, which isn't properly formatted HTML. There is no HTML or HEAD tag, instead it starts with a table tag.

Very very strange. I'm now wondering if there's a way to show legitimate HTML content in the email program... ;)

But for now people, don't trust every URL you see in Pocket Outlook... :P