Sunday, September 23, 2007

Going undercover in the world of phishing

Jason Harbert was a terrible spammer. The research scientist for Cloudmark recently spent weeks monitoring the phishing community's chat rooms and forums, learned the lingo, earned some trust, and even received kits from the fraudsters who set up scam pages that steal victims' personal data. Then he went and hurt the criminals' feelings after not coming through on the spam delivery.

Read the article HERE.

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