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Anti-Phishing Tools

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the escalating-the-arms-race dept.

mikeage writes "PCWorld has an article about an anti-phishing tool available that tries to detect fake websites." This is about Web Caller-ID already in use by eBay's custom user toolbar. The article also talks a bit about the incredible increase in phishing scams.

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  1. You mean... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I wasn't supposed to give s1ashdot my credit card number to read this story?

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  2. phishing automated reply by djtech · · Score: 4, Funny

    What we need is a way to automatically reply to these phishing scams with bogus information. I'd like to be able to order everything sent in a spam message too with bogus information. Beat them at their own game!

  3. Re:Email Phishing by james_marsh · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not sure what good it would do to report it to citi since there's nothing they can do about it except maybe send out emails to everyone in the world telling them not to believe emails claiming to be from them.
    There's just a slight flaw in that logic...