Re: Phishing responses

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 10/28/05


Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:34:06 GMT

From: "bland" <rusty@666.fsnet.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.
|
| Is this a good idea. If all the millions of target users did it, the
| phisher would get so snowed under with garbage information he or she
| couldn't function.
|
| bland
|

It would be far better to submit any phishing attempt email to the Anti-Phishing
Organization.

http://www.antiphishing.org/report_phishing.html

Just capture Full Headers and Body and send an email to; reportphishing@antiphishing.org

-- 
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm


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