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Date Posted: 07:25:15 04/17/04 Sat
Author: Repost
Subject: Phishing on the rise

http://money.guardian.co.uk/news_/story/0,1456,1193883,00.html


> Gangs of fraudsters operating from Russia and eastern Europe are
> stealing hundreds of thousands of pounds a year from online banks by
> exploiting gullible and greedy British account holders.
>
> The number of so-called phishing scams is increasing sharply,
> according to new figures compiled by a leading British email security
> company, MessageLabs, which monitors the bursts of baited messages
> sent out to internet users.
>
> Last September it intercepted 279 suspect emails; in January it
> stopped 337,350 phishing-related messages.
>
> The scale of the problem is so large that high street banks have
> reversed their policy of denying there is a threat to online
> accounts.


David Harper
Cambridge, England

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