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Detecting and Fighting Phishers
Directorblue's Blog ^ | 5/14/2005 | Directorblue

Posted on 05/14/2005 5:44:06 AM PDT by directorblue

The following is another wonderful phishing email I just received. The scary thing is that, according to the Houston Chronicle, about 5% of adults receiving a phishing email provided some sort of personal information to the phisher.

Want to fight back? We'll break this phishing scheme down, show you how to trace back a phishing email, and -- in some cases -- alert the parties who, wittingly or unwittingly, provide phishing infrastructure...

(Excerpt) Read more at directorblue.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: email; phishers; phishing; scam; spam

1 posted on 05/14/2005 5:44:07 AM PDT by directorblue
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To: directorblue

that was interesting. I'd fall for it probably


2 posted on 05/14/2005 5:54:50 AM PDT by queenkathy (Don't give up. Moses was once a basket case.)
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