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Companies Forced to Fight Phishing

Brian Krebs writes in The Washington Post:

Kate Trower never found out who was trying to trick her company's customers into giving up their credit card information, but she did learn about their taste in music.

Trower, a fraud investigator for Atlanta-based Internet service provider EarthLink, chased the "German phishers" for months. The scammers built Web pages designed to look like an EarthLink-affiliated site, then sent e-mails to EarthLink customers, prompting recipients to offer up their private financial data and Internet account passwords. Every time the company shut one site down, another would pop up.

posted by Fergie @ 9/21/2007 11:51:00 AM