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ecross
June 13th, 2007, 06:34 AM
According to a report by the Anti-Phishing Working Group, the number of recorded phishing sites nearly tripled between March and April of 2007.

Phishing is a type of fraud that uses e-mail and fake Web sites to trick you into giving away sensitive personal or financial information. The Anti-Phishing Working Group reports that Web sites of financial institutions, in particular large US banks, are the most spoofed Web sites.

http://blogs.msdn.com/securitytipstalk/archive/2007/06/07/identity-theft-web-sites-triple-in-one-month.aspx