Phishing scams
Scam Buster
Having watched these types of scams on and off for 5 years one thing
strikes me as strange.
I see no mechanism to take the sites down within hours.
I would like some comment.
My comments...
I think the banking industry does try to respond and have sites shut
down. How effective this is I do not know. From past experience the
sites have stayed up for days and reporting them right up to the highest
level, as in the Govt Minister of Technology, saw not change. I believe
the political will is just not there in this country.
Is this law enforcement policy in order to gather evidence? If this is
so and proper steps have been taken then surely arrests have been made.
If this is not policy then who is dealing with this issue?
Again surely a response time in the order of hours would make this less
attractive to the offenders.
If nobody is dealing with the issue then is there something we could do
as concerned citizens. Ready response team in as many countries as we
could muster. (Nanae & Spamcop on the phone after a headsup). I could
add much more thought on this one. Highlighting sites we close is an in
for use with the media.
The adventure begins... I hear the call "You are herding Cats here".
Spamfighter
news:4961ae0f$0$9002$ba62...@nova.planet.nl:
> Greetings All
>
> Having watched these types of scams on and off for 5 years one thing
> strikes me as strange.
>
> I see no mechanism to take the sites down within hours.
>
> I would like some comment.
>
> My comments...
>
> I think the banking industry does try to respond and have sites shut
> down. How effective this is I do not know. From past experience the
> sites have stayed up for days and reporting them right up to the
> highest level, as in the Govt Minister of Technology, saw not change.
> I believe the political will is just not there in this country.
>
> Is this law enforcement policy in order to gather evidence? If this is
> so and proper steps have been taken then surely arrests have been
> made.
How can reporting a potential information thief in Russia working through
a website hosted in China and sending email through a hacked email
account in Australia to the Dutch Government possibly work quickly? You
may have found some success in the past by reporting the scams to
meldpunt (mainly used to report European sourced child pornography, but
is your local reporting agency assuming you are based in NL) or even to
Interpol, but this is no longer the case.
>
> If this is not policy then who is dealing with this issue? Again
> surely a response time in the order of hours would make this less
> attractive to the offenders.
>
> If nobody is dealing with the issue then is there something we could
> do as concerned citizens. Ready response team in as many countries as
> we could muster. (Nanae & Spamcop on the phone after a headsup). I
> could add much more thought on this one. Highlighting sites we close
> is an in for use with the media.
NANAE is almost spent. Report email spam to APEWS (formerly SPEWS).
They have global reach.
I notice that you are using Windows Mail as your newsclient. It's a very
simple and low quality piece of garbage. Try using Xnews. It's free,
more versatile and far more secure. Give it time, it grows on you and
you can play with your headers information until that novelty wears off.
Chances are that you are also using Internet Explorer as your default web
browser. Whilst the latest incarnation is much improved over older
versions, it still lacks the latest technology to protect against known
and suspected phishing sites. Firefox is a much better choice. It
leaves Internet Explorer out in the cold (watch the address pane change
colour between secure sites, sites with failed certificates and suspected
phishing sites). The Browser History Library is clumsy compared with IE,
but that's a small price to pay. Again, it's free software. If you do
install it, uncheck IE as the default and uncheck the option for IE to
check if it is the default, and the two will work happily together.
>
> The adventure begins... I hear the call "You are herding Cats here".
They used to say that Usenet spamfighting was like herding cats. It was
certainly frustrating. Nuking phishing sites is far more rewarding, but
still just as thankless as it was when the 386 processor was king.
Your trail begins here:
http://www.antiphishing.org/index.html
Say hello sometime
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spamfighter
freeuk
com