On Friday 06 October 2006 08:13, Carlos E. R. wrote:
There was an organization here that collected phising attempts, studied them a bit and forwarded them to the proper channels. But it seems they have stopped caring. A few times my report bounced, because their antivirus rejected it. Can you imagine an email set up to collect malware rejecting malware? I had to archive it as a zip with password, a real bore. Finally, I stopped reporting: if they stopped caring, why should I?
The following appeared on slashdot today PhishTank Taps Community To ID Scams "The AP has an article on PhishTank, OpenDNS's service for fighting e-mail fraud. The free service seeks to tap the wisdom of the Internet community in identifying phishing emails and sites." From the article: "Users simply submit to PhishTank.com the messages they believe are scams. Others then examine the message and the site to which it links and decide whether it is or isn't a scam. When an item gets enough votes and the margin is wide enough, it is either dropped or classified as a phishing message. To prevent scammers from trying to game the system, votes are weighed based on how long, how often, and how accurate one has rated other messages." http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/10/05/1636227.shtml -- Regards, Graham Smith