- OT: Responding to plishing
- Posted by Tom Bannister on March 26th, 2006
Could someone please enlighten me as to how one could report or otherwise
respond to email plishing scams without ignoring them? Periodically, about
3-4 times over the past several weeks I've been getting a scam note advising
me that a vendor has been added to my Paypal account. A link is provided
which appears to be legitimate but in fact points to a non-paypal site.
The fact that some scumbag/s is/are still sending these things after several
weeks means they are still operating unimpeded and nothing appears to have
been done to stop them. Does anyone have a good link for reporting this
stuff? It's too bad methods for reporting or otherwise dealing with this
stuff weren't more widely known in the general public.
I've done a couple of Google searches but haven't come up with a good
methodology. I suspect most people ignore this stuff and of course a select
few would be victimized. Of course crooks have to make a living too but I
just want to do my part to help them have a lousy (and counterproductive)
day.
Tom Bannister
- Posted by SmakDaddy on March 26th, 2006
"Tom Bannister" <nospam@spam.not> wrote in message
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http://toolbar.netcraft.com/
- Posted by Tom Bannister on March 27th, 2006
"SmakDaddy" <smak@> wrote in message
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Hmmm, thanks for link. This would offer me protection if I subscribed and
netcraft will attempt to communicate with the hosting company of the
offending scam.
But ... my point is what about the average Joe that doesn't know Jack (or
Dick ;-) ) about computers other than basic stuff. Shouldn't there be some
sort of netwide cooperative effort that is transparent and accessable to
everybody? A healthy (online or other) community needs to be able to respond
to crooks and other threats. It seems to me that there is an opportunity
(ie: need) here for some sort of standardized and widely known ways of
reporting cybercrime.
What do you think?
Tom
- Posted by SmakDaddy on March 27th, 2006
"Tom Bannister" <nospam@spam.not> wrote in message
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In the real world? No.
The average Joe you speak of, the one who doesn't know Jack, won't take the
time to learn to do what has to be done, and would most likely report
anything that's Phishy, and maybe not even real Phish sites.
;o)
Kind of like AOL users who click the Report Spam button for anything they
don't like.
- Posted by Martin Harran on March 27th, 2006
"Tom Bannister" <nospam@spam.not> wrote in message
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This has been puzzling me for a while too as, like most people, I regularly
receive this sort of stuff - not just paypal but also various banks and
even Amazon recently.
I used to send these off to the genuine companies involved but I all I ever
got back was auto-replies saying "Thank You for Submitting" but I have never
seen any signs of follow up so I just started ignoring them.
Surely the links in these phishing attempts must be traceable, at least for
a short period of time, otherwise there is no point in the originators
sending them.
I would have thought that large companies like Paypal and the banks would
have teams of 'cybercops' dedicated to tracaking down these phising attempts
but I never hear of them acheiving anything.
- Posted by Brian Cryer on March 27th, 2006
"Martin Harran" <nospam@martinharran.com> wrote in message
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That's my experience too. Like you (Martin), I went through a phase of
reporting them but didn't see any indication that it made a difference so
now I just bin them.
--
Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian
- Posted by Jerry Stuckle on March 27th, 2006
Brian Cryer wrote:
The biggest problem is most of these sites are now hosted in countries where it
is very difficult to get one taken down.
The ones I've reported which are hosted in the U.S., western Europe and similar
countries seem to be taken down quite quickly. Ones hosted in ex-Soviet bloc
countries, certain South American countries and the like aren't taken down so
quickly.
--
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Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
jstucklex@attglobal.net
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- Posted by Arnie Goetchius on March 27th, 2006
Tom Bannister wrote:
My ISP has a dedicated email address for this kind of thing. Check with
your ISP to see what they have.
- Posted by Dylan Parry on March 27th, 2006
Pondering the eternal question of "Hobnobs or Rich Tea?", Tom Bannister
finally proclaimed:
What's "plishing"?
--
Dylan Parry
http://electricfreedom.org -- Where the Music Progressively Rocks!
- Posted by oeb on March 27th, 2006
Dylan Parry wrote:
Maybe it's phishing with a lisp?
To the OP, you might get some info here
http://www.antiphishing.org/
