A Tour of the Google Blacklist

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A Tour of the Google Blacklist

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday January 4, 2007 @03:27PM from the taking-down-names dept.

WienerPizza writes "Michael Sutton takes us on a tour of the Google blacklist, a list of suspected phishing sites. He finds that eBay, PayPal and Bank of America combined account for 63% of the active phishing sites. Amusingly, he also reveals that Yahoo! has a nasty habit of hosting phishing sites that harvest — you guessed it — Yahoo! credentials!"

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So... by NightWulf · 2007-01-04 15:53 · Score: 5, Funny

That guy on eBay who told me to use my Bank of America account to send money to Paypal all through his link may not have been legit?
1. Re:So... by The+Zon · 2007-01-04 16:35 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You know that guy too? Don't worry, I'm pretty sure he's legit. I just used his service to order some chemicals to clean the dye off of a suitcase full of money I'm splitting with an exiled doctor from Nigeria. Can you believe it? This doctor contacted me right out of the blue, and all I needed was a U.S. bank account and a sympathetic heart. And, except for the chemicals, this is all at no cost to me! I can't believe such a great proposition initially got filtered to my spam folder!
  
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Re:But it's not a problem by Jonnty · 2007-01-04 16:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Or define the type of scam you're trying to report. (Scroll down, it's in black, indented courier.)

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This one made me cry a little inside by Rude+Turnip · 2007-01-04 16:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Here is one of the last entries on the Google blacklist:

+http://zeta-os.com/astats/bankofamerica/......... ..

For those not in the know, Zeta-os.com is/was the successor developer to YellowTab, which was developing a new operating system based on the old BeOS code. Now, zeta-os.com (or at least a part of it) has been reduced to a phishing site. *sigh*

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1. Re:This one made me cry a little inside by Rude+Turnip · 2007-01-04 16:56 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That's because I truncated the full URL. You have to follow the link in the article to get the whole thing.
  
  Oh, and thanks for modding my little emotional episode as funny, you bastards.
  
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What? by 8ball629 · 2007-01-04 18:24 · Score: 3, Funny

I tried signing into one of the listed Geocities site and nothing happened... what gives?

You mean to tell me this is not a legit Yahoo Photos gateway?!
Re:Pollute the phishing sites by speculatrix · 2007-01-04 19:16 · Score: 4, Funny

mod parent up!

I do this when I have time... ensure you use what look like valid entries for bank a/c and pin values.

I also enter things like "f**k you spammer" into the name fields, so that when they go through to test the captured data, they get to see my opinion of them (yeah, relatively useless I know, but I get tiny twinge of pleasure at the thought)
www.microsoft.com, www.msn.com ... by peter303 · 2007-01-05 03:28 · Score: 2, Funny

Hmm, looks suspicious to me.
yahoo phishing site by TheCybernator · 2007-01-05 03:45 · Score: 4, Funny

i went to mail.yahoo.com and they asked my name and password. i am smart and i fooled them by giving my gmail password.

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Re:But it's not a problem by mhokie · 2007-01-05 05:37 · Score: 3, Funny

Grace: Well, with your bad knee Ed, you shouldn't throw anybody... Its true.