What is Phishing? - Wikipedia
Yahoo News has a story from PC World about "...The number of sites devoted to phishing skyrocketed last year, and the number of Americans taken in by phishing schemes has nearly doubled..."
I know my mail boxes fill each day with phishing schemes.
You should read the story. It says that the phishing guys are winning the war. We are all under attack.
"Best Defense
Although no magic bullet may exist now (or ever) to safeguard us all, there is one simple way to protect yourself from the majority of phishing attempts: Never click a link in an e-mail or on a third-party site to go to any of your financial accounts. If, instead, you always use your own bookmark or type in the address, even when you're 100 percent certain that the e-mail is legitimate, you should be safe."
Sometime I should count the number of phishing schemes I get in the mail each day. I bet I get more than 50 a day.
It is almost to the point where I hate to use email.
Each time something new comes along that is new and great the phishing people and the porn people latch on to it and try and use it to get our money.
They spoil the power and the fun of the Internet.
One small effect they have on me is that I have to monitor and approve all comments left here. Another effect is has is that people do not want to give out their email address. On the other hand I will not approve someone for full access to my sites unless they sign up and use a real email address.
It is just a big pain in the ass.
One of these days I need to count up all the emails I get in one day and count up just how many of them are useful ones that I want and how many are junk.
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