Daily Archives: 2-August-2006

Phishing Response

Today … like most days … I received phishing spam … nothing new about that.

Just out of idle curiosity, I clicked on the link they indicated (a bogus E*Trade site) to see what it looked like … this is a screen shot of what I saw …

afraid-org-banned-user.jpg

I have to tip my hat to Joshua Anderson, who runs afraid.org … his response to the phishing attempt was absolutely the best thing that could be done.

I wish other service providers responded in similar fashion.

[tags]phishing, spam, security, isp, tos[/tags]