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2008

Why I can’t put Tibet in my Hotmail address. Apparently it’s because “TIB” is name of a bank in Florida, and Microsoft are trying to prevent phishers from creating e-mail addresses that include the names of financial institutions.

# 10th August 2008, 10:41 pm / microsoft, phishing, tibet, hotmail