2CO hit by Pfishing attack

is there no end to these

[Mr Bo Jangles]

I've just received a sophisticated pfishing e-mail of the same 'high standard' as those PayPal ones.
This is serious stuff, and I find it difficult to understand why with all the millions of dollars at stake these can't be successfully controlled.

[RailMan]

I find it difficult to understand why .... these can't be successfully controlled.

what would you do to control / prevent phishing attacks on your web sites?
how are you going to prevent someone copying your logo etc and sending out millions of emails with false URLs etc?

[Mr Bo Jangles]

what would you do to control / prevent phishing attacks on your web sites?
how are you going to prevent someone copying your logo etc and sending out millions of emails with false URLs etc?

On my web site? - hardly possible. But if you're the size of PayPal and got millions of $ to throw at investigators and 'pull' with federal investigators, then it's an entirely different picture isn't it.

[Habtom]

>> what would you do to control / prevent phishing attacks on your web sites?

If there is a will there is a way. :)

Hab

[jatar_k]

they can be controlled to an extent. Mail servers can filter them out just like any other spam.

I get 5-10 notifications every day from our mail server nuking 'PHISHING-BANK'.

As I was writing this actually I discovered that it isn't the anti spam (spamassassin) that gets the phishing emails. It seems phishing emails are taken care of by antivirus (Clam AnitVirus).

You can't control phishing attacks against you but you can educate your users and take action whenever someone finds one. Also give them a simple method to contact you in regards to these types of emails.

It really shouldn't be something you need to worry about unless you are some type of payment processor.

[Mr Bo Jangles]

You can't control phishing attacks against you but

I was talking from PayPal and Ebay and 2CO's point of view - THEY really want to stop them, and I'm sure are throwing millions at doing just that - all to try and bring those criminals responsible to justice. What I am surprised at is that with the likes of BIG banks, and PayPal and other big organisations all throwing big money at trying to put these people behind bars, it is proving very difficult.

[RailMan]

What I am surprised at is that with the likes of BIG banks, and PayPal and other big organisations all throwing big money at trying to put these people behind bars, it is proving very difficult.

you shouldn't be surprised at all ..........

the US government has spent $millions chasing bin laden, using armed force, but still haven't found him

paypal / 2CO etc don't have armed forces and unlimited financial resources - how on earth can you expect them to track down and prosecute spammers (plural), who could be anywhere in the world?