I recieved a message yesterday on my telstra (android) mobile phone, purportedly from one of my contacts. It read:
The username id was my phone number and the password was random. I visit the websited from my phone (which I might add entirely defeats the purpose of an MMS...) and the there was a (legitimate) message and picture from said contact..
I went back to the website today on a pc to download the image - and am consequently concerned about the website... the legitimate looking telstra.com/viewmms redirected to this:
Which is not as a legitmate looking address (and in the PC web-browser, the website does not very Telstra-y). So I am a bit concerned this is some kind of scam or something...
My questions are:
Thanks in advance.
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I went back to the website today on a pc to download the image - and am consequently concerned about the website... the legitimate looking telstra.com/viewmms redirected to this:
Which is not as a legitmate looking address (and in the PC web-browser, the website does not very Telstra-y). So I am a bit concerned this is some kind of scam or something...
It looks very Telstra to me - but not current Telstra. Which pretty much makes sense given when it was built.
It is legit and it's how MMS messages are delivered to phones which can't (for whatever reason), receive them. As others have said, log a fault to get it fixed.
One way to verify that the site is legit, given that it is an HTTPS site, is to view the certificate information which shows that is has been signed by the Telstra CA which is in turn signed by RSA who are a top-level trusted certification authority.
Thanks for your fast reply...
(I think the error "This server's security certificate is not yet valid!" that poped in red may have contributed to my paranoia).
@djmac wrote:Thanks for your fast reply...
(I think the error "This server's security certificate is not yet valid!" that poped in red may have contributed to my paranoia).
Then the date on your computer may be wrong. The cert on that site is valid from Sep 2011 to 2013. The intermediate above that is 2011 to 2016. The one above that is 2009 to 2017 and the root is 2001 to 2026.
Sounds like the date on your phone/machine is set earlier than (at least) one of those start dates.
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