Phishing & Committing Fraud In Public

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Presented at Blackhat USA 2004 by

In late 2003 the rate of phishing fraud suddenly began to escalate leading to widespread media reports. Phishing fraud is impersonating a trusted party such as a bank in order to steal personal information such as credit card numbers of account details. This talk will describe real life phishing incidents experienced by one of the largest on-call response teams in the field and the actions being taken by the industry to prevent or discourage future attacks.