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Home 31 Mar 2005 Phish-proofing URLs in mail? Email For those who've been living in an e-mail free cave for the past year, phishing has become a huge problem for banks. Every day I get dozens of urgent messages from a wide variety of banks telling me that I'd better confirm my account info pronto. Early bank phishes were pretty clumsy, but the crooks have gotten better at it and current phishes can look very authentic. See this archive of recent phishes at antiphishing.org for some examples. A very common trick is the fake link, in which the link you think you're clicking on isn't the one you're really clicking on, like this: See more ... posted at: 23:30 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/urls.trackback

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