Anti-Phishing Tools

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.

Comments

Re:phishing automated reply

[The Ultimate Fartkno]

It's for mortgage spammers and not phishers, but I'm a fan of the Unsolicited Commando project. It's a little Java app that spends its day filling out mortgage applications on spamvertised sites with completely believable - but totally bogus - personal data. The source is available so perhaps a clever person could randomly generate credit card numbers and adapt the program to attack phish sites.

Re:Email Phishing

[aussersterne]

Citibank can't do anything about it anyway; they're not law enforcement, and even if they were, what exactly do you see law enforcement doing about SPAM or phish emails? Nada.

I used to work at eBay and the phishing problem was terrible (though I didn't deal with it directly, that wasn't my department). When users would find out, they'd demand to know why eBay didn't do something about it. The people who worked on that floor would stand around in the smoking shed and bitch, "What do they want us to do, buy some guns and go to Romania and raid the guy's house wearing little eBay uniforms?"