John Graham Cumming is maintaining his Spammer’s Compendium and he is giving names to spam techniques.
I reported some time ago one technique used in PayPal phishing emails and he created a method: Cross your fingers and click (UH!Mustaca!HTML)
What: Making what looks like a valid link to PayPal turn into a link to a phishing site using a FORM and a cleverly constructed INPUT tag.
Date added: June 30, 2006
Example from the wild:
(Reported by Sorin Mustaca)
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