http://www.ippages.com/?ip=203.199.124.235 this site will allow you to visualize the routing to this IP from any source: http://visualroute.visualware.com/ -jmz On 1/11/07, keith smith wrote: > > Good Morning to all you guru's out there in PLUG land! > > I received an email this morning: > > From : Bank of America > Subject : Account Authentication Required > > Saying I needed to verify my account. It contained a link that took me to > > > http://203.199.124.235/bankofamerica.com/ > > Obviously this is fraudulent. My first clue was I do not have a BofA > account :) > > So this form asks for account numbers, social security number, date of > birth, mothers maiden name .... ETC. > > This is the second time I have received this type of email. Both times I > have reported it to BofA. > > So now I'm curious. I would like to do a little detective work here. I > went to DNSStuff.com and did a reverse lookup and the IP shows it is in > India City.... > > I know there must be a Linux command that I can run to learn more about > this IP. I'm wondering just how much information I might be able to learn > from just having this limited amount of information and how I would go about > it. > > Any Ideas? > > Thanks, > Keith > > > > > Keith Smith > A link from my website to yours > Submit Your Metro Phoenix Website > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- .0000. communication. .0001. development. .0010. strategy. .0100. appeal. JOSHUA M. ZEIDNER IT Consultant ++power; ++perspective; ++possibilities; ( 602 ) 490 8006 jjzeidner@gmail.com