The Anti-Phishing Working Group. A place to check out that suspicious email. (Although, a good rule-of-thumb is to consider any suspicious email to be a scam.)
What is Phishing? Phishing attacks use 'spoofed' e-mails and fraudulent websites designed to fool recipients into divulging personal financial data such as credit card numbers, account usernames and passwords, social security numbers, etc. By hijacking the trusted brands of well-known banks, online retailers and credit card companies, phishers are able to convince up to 5% of recipients to respond to them.
[Via Macintouch]
Posted by jackhodgson at December 31, 2004 11:47 AM