Thread: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Old 28-05-2008, 21:05   #7413
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Originally Posted by R Jones View Post
Thanks - I too want to investigate the wriggle room!

This contact form was filled in after the moderator of the forum specifically squashed a phishing discussion about this site, and told us NOT to report it to anti-phishing sites and he said, "Before you start to send emails to the moderators and our abuse team about this, http://webwise.bt,com isn't a phishing site. It's merely a part of BT.com that is hosted on a different set of servers, much like bt.custhelp.com which is hosted on Right Now's servers in California. Right Now's servers also handle all of the traffic in the "Contact Us" section of BT.com just like the form on the Webwise site and with a similar level of security for handling details like your account numbers.
Sending us lots of emails reporting this will delay the abuse team from dealing with genuine reports of phishing sites so I'd appreciate it if you didn't.
Thanks"

He doesn't say - this BT Webwise site is managed by a recognised commercial partner.
He doesn't say - Phorm run our Webwise customer help service.
He is responding to a specific debate on his forum about the security of data handled by this site, which has taken place on the forum he moderates, and following his "reassurance" I decided to test it out by using the contact form.

BT have also kept insisting all over the place that they do not send identifiable personal data to Phorm.

But is there any "technical" wriggle room relating to the headers?
The only information I can find on the "References" header is that it is the true message origin which the email is replying to. I have looked at several definitions and they all say the same thing. So in the absence of data to the contrary I have to assume that to be correct, but I am open to any email gurus interpretation.

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