Anti-Phishing Tools

mikeage writes "PCWorld has an article about an anti-phishing tool available that tries to detect fake websites." This is about Web Caller-ID already in use by eBay's custom user toolbar. The article also talks a bit about the incredible increase in phishing scams.

You mean...

[Black Parrot]

...I wasn't supposed to give s1ashdot my credit card number to read this story?

phishing automated reply

[djtech]

What we need is a way to automatically reply to these phishing scams with bogus information. I'd like to be able to order everything sent in a spam message too with bogus information. Beat them at their own game!

Re:Already sluggish...

[JohnGrahamCumming]

Look if you are going to post the text of an article here, at least include the relevant URLs. The ad has been replaced by

Advertisement

Now how I'm I supposed to click through to the exciting, not to be missed, opportunity that the advertiser paid for!

John.

Anti-Phishing Tool

[Anonymous Coward]

Visine?

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Hmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

My Anti Phishing tool is my brain. I mean sometimes these phishing e-mails are nto even spoof so that they appear to come from the company that they are spoofing. Sometimes the website has graphics for the company they are trying to appear as and the URL is in CHINA! First off, No company shuld EVER ask you to click on a link and enter personal information for things. No mortgage company I know of will actually advertise in a spam and if they do, then your alert flag should go up. If you just use common sense, you should be more then able to determine if a web page or e-mail is a phishing attempt. Unfortunately, your grandma or your mom may not. I think that companies liek AOL need to add more training wheels to their service so to speak and help them with determining if something is legit or not. Would I ever load such software? No I would not because I don't need it....but my mom might.

I don't know... I was told that phishing scams often played on misspellings, so my "red alert" flag is going up on your message.

Re:Email Phishing

[Theatetus]

I got it too, though thunderbird marked it as spam and my anti-phishing tool in firefox told me "you are at 31337.h4x0rz.cn" or wherever. I'm not sure what good it would do to report it to citi since there's nothing they can do about it except maybe send out emails to everyone in the world telling them not to believe emails claiming to be from them.

Re:I have a fairly good anti-phishing tool

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't just stop there, whenever the gasman, the waterman, the lectric man, the phoneman, even members of your own family, ring on the front door and ask to come in to check something, call their company up.

On some occasions, a healthy dose of paranoia may be useful.

Fear Everything.

Re:Email Phishing

[james_marsh]

I'm not sure what good it would do to report it to citi since there's nothing they can do about it except maybe send out emails to everyone in the world telling them not to believe emails claiming to be from them.
There's just a slight flaw in that logic...

Re:Already sluggish...

[LiquidCoooled]

Sorry!

Here you go, just go here http://www.advertysement.com/ [advertysement.com] and enter your credit card details, we will gladly show you the missing content. ;)

Anti-Phishing Tool

[sulli]

Mud and police roadblocks? [boston.com]

Re:Nice try, indeed.

[teamhasnoi]

% perl -e 'print teamhasnoi.hasSenseOfHumor()'
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Stop trying to infect me with your spyware! I'm wise to your tricks!

Re:Technological solution to a social problem

[Yewbert]

My anti-Phishing tool-kit:

Deodorant

A razor

A comb

Air-freshener

A sign that says, "No camping allowed."

Oh, wait - that's my anti-Phish-FAN tool-kit.

(Before ya get your mellow all harshed, I AM a Phish fan, to a degree. ;-) )

Re:Email Phishing

[Anonymous Coward]

The people who worked on that floor would stand around in the smoking shed and bitch, "What do they want us to do, buy some guns and go to Romania and raid the guy's house wearing little eBay uniforms?"


Well, yes, if it's not tooooooo much trouble...

Re:What banks *should* do!

[Anonymous Coward]

Right. Better yet, they should stop offering online services.

I think Phish appreciates this effort!

[Anonymous Coward]

There's only one true Phish [phish.com] website. I'm sure they're grateful to this new technology that helps keep people from being tricked into visiting websites belonging to boy bands, bleached blonde airheads, rappers or other so-called musicians. :)

[Hint to mods: The band Phish has been around about 20 years longer than the word 'phishing'. ]

Re:Another poor metaphor....

[thebatlab]

Metaphors and analogies don't always have to have a one-to-one relationship. He was simply saying to get people out of the get-on-the-net-and-go mindset and make them more aware of when to slow down and think. Geez. Someone had some Kellog's Frosted Bitchy Flakes for breakfast.