Phishing

The ability of non-techie individuals to recognize and spot fraud and dangers on the Internet is still largely underdeveloped.
Few people are aware of the dangers, risks, and types of hooks that malicious software, online devices, misleading e-mails, and apparently normal Web pages utilize to get access to their computers or to confidential, private information [...]

A Hurricane Katrina email hoax, believed to the first, but almost certainly not the last, Hurricane Katrina email hoax, was sighted yesterday.
“Hello, For those who don’t know me real name it is Brenda or (loily) for some of you,” is how the email hoax, which John “Highway” Wu, over at Highwayman.org received.

A high school student has been identified as the mastermind behind a phishing scheme involving a fake banking website.
According to authorities in Korea, the teenager, identified only by his surname ‘Kim’, managed to get personal and financial data from seventy-seven targets before he was ultimately caught.

In case you had any doubts about the global nature - the complex world-wide intricacies - of phishing networks, doubt no more.

Groups and individuals being dubbed as Internet vigilantes are taking matters into their own hands when it comes to phishers and their phishy sites, and are using their hacking powers for good (they would argue) by hacking into phishing sites and defacing and mutilating them in some fashion so as to make clear that they [...]

Spam Wars author Danny Goodman doesn’t just write about spam wars - he’s actively engaged in the trenches. Here, guest author Danny Goodman, fresh from the ordeal, tells us about taking aim at a phisher just last night:

[Courtesy of Mick C. at Whizardries]
One way that the unscrupulous have of gaining access to your personal information is to use “social engineering” to trick you into clicking on a link that will take you to a different website than the one you think you should be going to. If you get those emails that [...]

Microsoft this week filed lawsuits against 117 phishers. Using trademark law, Microsoft is claiming trademark infringement by the phishers, based on the phishers creating copycat websites which mimicked Microsoft sites, and which were intended to trick users into believing that they were visiting a true Microsoft site.

eBay is working frantically to fix a bug in their software which allows phishers to do their phishing dirty work using real eBay URLs in their phishing efforts. eBay is calling the phish-friendly problem a “software bug” which can be used to create a genuine eBay link which in turn redirects and takes the [...]

Aunty has a firm belief that anybody who has a vested interest in charging money for keeping you safe from harm is likely to have a vested interest in perpetuating the threat of that harm - otherwise they run the risk of becoming obsolete when that harm is no longer.
In Aunty’s old stomping grounds [...]

The newest spam scam to hit eBay users is a spam which is infected with what is known as a “keylogger”. When a user opens the infected email, which then has them log into their eBay account, it can record the keystrokes typed by the user, capturing the user’s account name and password, and [...]

Have you ever seen a phishing mule?
No, it’s not a new act on Animal Planet.
In this context “mule” is slang for a low-level operative in a criminal organization whose job it is to act as a courier for contraband - usually money or drugs.
Authorities in Australia have discovered a phishing ring with ties to overseas [...]

[Submitted by MickC of Whizardries.com]
You knew it had to happen. The scammers and criminals who are behind the phishing schemes that you get in your e-mail could never be satisfied with only fooling you into clicking on that link in your e-mail.
Now they want to use your favorite legitimate sites against you. That’s right friends, [...]

[Submitted by MickC of Whizardries.com]
So, you think you’re up to date on the latest in Internet scams? Just call you “Yogi” because you’re smarter than the average bear, right? You won’t be one of the thousands who will lose an estimated $481,000,000.00 to the mechanizations of the unscrupulous.
You’ve installed Spoofstick on your copy of Firefox [...]