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Phishing In The Channel

Posted by michael on from the turnkey-solution-to-starting-your-own-business dept.

Rick Zeman writes "A Washington Post story details the relationships between phishers, IRC, plug-and-play phishing toolkits, and phantom web sites. 'For the past few months we've started to see phishing attacks from subcontractors, people who buy and use ready-made phishing toolkits and e-mail lists,' Orad said. 'It's gotten to the point where you don't need to know anything about spamming or computer programming to pull this off.'"

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  1. Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now we have phishkiddies

    1. Re:Great by Have+Blue · · Score: 4, Funny

      That just sounds like people who hit Page Up way too much.

  2. So what you are say is: by Neil+Blender · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now people who know nothing about ripping people off can rip off people who know nothing about being ripped off.

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    1. Re:Dear Ebay/PayPal user by lordkuri · · Score: 4, Funny

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