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Domain Resale Market Is Phisher Heaven
Krishna Dagli writes "Finish security firm F-Secure has discovered that alongside the sale of such innocuous domains as filmlist.com comes the resale of domains that obviously belong to banks or other financial institutions. Sedo.com, for example, is reselling domains like chasebank-online.com, citi-bank.com and bankofameriuca.com. 'Why would anybody want to buy these domains unless they are the bank themselves — or a phishing scammer?,' F-Secure asks."
Don't knock it, I've been a loyal customer of the Bank of Ameriuca for three days. They've given me life insurance dirt cheap, some very fine investment tips (a hot new web 2.0 company guaranteed to soar like an eagle in a week!) and offered free hosting for some homemade porn I've made. Also, I seem to have scored an elephant desktop friend which knows about free screensavers. It was about time banks realized that they have to offer more diverse services for our money.