Thursday, May 06, 2004

Phishing Attacks Skyrocket
PC World has a great piece on the devastation being caused by "Phishing" or spoofing commercial websites by creating a site that looks like eBay for example, but is actually just stealing your identity.

According to their article, "The results suggest that as many as 30 million adults have experienced a phishing attack and that 1.78 million adults could have fallen victim to the scams, Gartner says. Phishing attacks typically begin with e-mail messages purporting to come from established companies such as EBay, Best Buy, Citigroup, and others. Web page links within the e-mail messages direct recipients to Web sites disguised as official company Web pages where the recipient is asked to enter personal information such as their social security number, account number, password, or credit card information."

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