Are the rest of you seeing traffic about phishing? I suspect a campaign is underway, trying to make us more savvy about what to expect from our financial institutions. I'm on a regular distribution from mine, and always pay attention when I MouseOver a link, to be sure it's really going back to their site. I've seen IP addresses during a MouseOver, and I never trust those (give me DNS lookup any day). I often err on the side of paranoia (!) and manually type in web addresses.
The top hit when
Google'ing for [phishing] is:
antiphishing.org .. wonder if that's anything like anti-matter (from Star Trek)?
Here's other stuff I've seen about phishing:
Tangled in the Phishing Lines by Amey Stone (June 2004)
How to Avoid the 'Phish' Hook by Amey Stone (May 2004)
Phishing Tackle (June 2004)
and some good screen captures: Phishing email alerts
* with appropriate apologies to
Dr. Seuss
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