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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. Let's implement some ideas by British · · Score: 0, Redundant



    1. Give customers a secureID card
    2. Have a phone number customers call to retrieve a pin. Have the website require the PIN to be entered before using the site.

    Surely one or both of these ideas would cost less in the long run than thousands of dollars of fraudulent charges.