How to escape the phishing nets
In the last 18 months the character of the spam reaching your inbox has undergone a subtle change.
Slowly but steadily the come-ons for porn and penis pills are making way for bogus warnings about problems with online accounts - aka phishing.
The Anti-Phishing Working Group reports that the average monthly growth rate in phishing sites between July 2004 and February 2005 was 26%.
These phishing e-mails try to make you enter personal and login details on fake webpages made to resemble real bank sites.
The first phishing messages and fake pages were easy to spot because of their mangled grammar and spelling.
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