I don't know if this will be filtered out ... here are some recent articles about Phishing


http://www.antiphishing.org/
http://news.ists.dartmouth.edu/todaysnews.html#internal13272

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/32906.html
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/25000-1.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/35635.html
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1152838
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/23/1077497503111.html


Basically you get an e-mail that looks like it comes from a trusted place, like Pay Pal or your bank ... it si asking you to go to your account to verify some stuff, and has a url ... if you click on the url you get to a web site that looks EXACTLY the same as if you were going to pay pal or your bank.

The e-mail text and headers look EXACTLY the same as if you got it from them, except it is a scam to get at private information about you so that the scammer can steal your credit, drain your bank accounts, do stuff in your name, perhaps Identity Theft.

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