[SpamCop-List] Re: Tool to report phishing scam emails

[Michael Brennan]

Doug Thegarden wrote:
> 
> Roman wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Castlecops created a new tool to report phishing scam emails, they use
> > it in trying to shutdown the phishing websites.
> >
> > http://castlecops.com/pirt
> >
> > I thought it might be useful for Spamcop reporters, altough I have not
> > used it myself yet.
> >
> 
> I've been using Netcraft for some time now and very well it works too.

Doug, Roman,

Thanks for the info.  I use Netcraft, too, although just for phish
reporting -- have a couple of hits on  previously-unreporting phishing
URL's to my credit, although their real champions have dozens, scores.

Netcraft also has a current story, dated last Monday, about a new
criminal phishing exploit against three banking websites belonging to
banks in northern Florida.  They actually got into the banks' websites
and were able to redirect customers to a spoof page.  A guy I know does
Net security professionally, and he's been telling me for a couple of
years to stay away from online banking/investing, to do it the old way,
with letters and check redemptions and signature guarantees signed by my
banker.   

He also warns against WAN's and LAN's, although I think he's okay with
PAN's because of their small footprint (although a couple of Israeli
security consultants did manage, a couple of years ago, to pull the
first Bluetooth spoof ever, on a subway car, getting close enough to a
Bluetooth-enabled PDA to do an interrupt and hijack the PDA session).

Regards,
Michael