More on Phishing

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 09:45:09 -0500
From: "Patrick W.Gilmore" <patrick () akamai com>
Subject: More on Phishing
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
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For IP, if you like:

<http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39116416,00.htm>

 Latest phishing scam most "devious" ever

[...]

The architects of the latest scam also adopted a more insidious Web 
re-direction technique to bamboozle victims than Sophos had ever seen 
before. Activating the link in the e-mail directs the victim to a fake 
version of the site but also opens an authentic copy of the site in a 
second browser window behind it.

The fake version of the site asks for the victim's account access details 
but returns an error message if he or she attempts to use it. The victim is 
then sent to the real site unaware that they've been duped.

[...]

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TTFN,
patrick

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