Re: Phishing responses

From: bland (rusty_at_666.fsnet.co.uk)
Date: 10/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:09:40 +0100

"Michael Meckelein" <michael@go-on-line.de> wrote in message
news:4361eb52$0$22541$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net...
> "bland" <rusty@666.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:djsjjn$6d5$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk...
>> When I get a Phishing email about a bypothetical PayPal or Ebay account,
>> I usually return some random data, with an invented witty but offensive
>> password of the day, to the offending web page in the hope that who is
>> doing it will waste a few minutes on trying it all out.
>
> If this verifying step is done manually, maybe some minutes of the Phisher
> are wasted. However, it is no big effort to program a mechanism which try
> to login with the provided data. Only if the login was successfully the
> Phishing author will be informed. Note that Phishers are often very
> skilled people.
>
> Regards,
> Michael

I think it has some effect as I usually get 4 or 5 attempted accesses to my
firewall the day after I do this.

bland

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