Re: bogus request for credit card information

From: S. Pidgorny (slavickp_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 18:37:27 +1000

Actually, the creators of such e-mails don't bother to exploit
vulnerabilities - they count on the users' ignorance more than anything
else. So-caled phishing is on the rise - banks start to feel that as a
serious problem, as losses increase. One problem is, it's very hard to catch
criminals organising that - not impossible though and I'm looking forward to
see some of these guys behind bars.

The best is to report to Citibank as a fraud attempt. They will shut down
the mailicious site. 

-- 
Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MVP, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-
"Jurren Bouman" <jubo@euronet.nl> wrote in message
news:#piF7ASKEHA.3316@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> "barb" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2c4f01c42876$97184a60$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> > I received an email supposedly from CitiBank for my full
> > credit card number and password. Who would I report this
> > to?
>
> Something like this:
> http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100927.htm
>
> -- 
> Jurren Bouman
> MVP Windows® - Security
> http://www.microsoft.com/security/
>
>

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