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Scamming the phishers?
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:15:54 -0400
Hi, Is anyone aware of any banks which are creating fake online bank accounts that appear to be valid accounts but with no real money in them? The idea then is to feed valid login information to the fake accounts to phishers. These accounts can then be used by investigators to gather intelligence about how phishers operate. The fake account can also be used to make phish less attractive by wasting phisher's time on financial transactions that never get completed. Things may also get really interesting if the false account information is sold to another party for them to steal money. As an aside, I just got a phishing email targeting my bank. It arrive 2 mints after I was using my online bank account for paying some bills. How did the phishers know? ;-) Thanks, Richard M. Smith http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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