Heavyweights go after ‘Phishers’
p2pnet.net News:- ‘Gone phishing’ will soon have little currency if Microsoft, eBay, PayPal and Visa have anything to do with it.
The four companies are among others doing a data-meld aimed at putting the blocks on scammers, and they’re doing it by subscribing to a phishing net operated by WholeSecurity whose Phish Report Network’s central database will allow Microsoft, et al, to instantly report fraudulent Web sites, it states.
‘Phishers’ are scammers who try to steal Net users’ identities by sending out phony emails and/or links to Web pages mimicking popular Web sites. The scam-mails and sites attempt to get visitors to pass over sensitive information such as passwords, credit card numbers, or bank account information.
Using the Phish Report Network’s secure service, companies enter confirmed phishing sites. Recipients get the aggregated lists and can then incorporate them into various software, email, and browser services to help protect consumers against online fraud, says WholeSecurity.
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defining milestone - Phish Report Network, the Internet’s First Global Anti-Phishing Aggregation Service, WholeSecurity, February 14, 2005
February 16th, 2005 at 3:30 am
“Using the Phish Report Network’s secure service, companies enter confirmed phishing sites.”
And their competitor, those who don’t pay them a sum of money, those they don’t like… etc.
If the list is not open and verifiable by end users (which they won’t do because they want control) then it is worth exactly nothing.