[lug] unescaping url encoded document

Fri Nov 6 13:21:35 MST 2009

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This is sort of amusing. I got a scam email telling me that the IRS was
going to give me a refund of $773.00 and all I had to do was fill in the
form and send it off.

I clicked on it just to see where they were really sending it and did a
"View Source" in my browser.  Here are the first 4 lines (4th line
truncated):

<Script Language='Javascript'>
<!-- HTML Encryption provided by IRS -->
<!--
document.write(unescape('%3C%21%44%4F%43%54%59%50%45%20%48%54%4D%4C%20%50

It displays fine, but I'm just curious what the submit button does and
wondered if anyone had an easy shortcut to translate the URL Encoding
into plain text outside of a browser.

An interesting variation, at least one I hadn't seen before.

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Ken
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