12-05-2008, 09:14 PM
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phishing scams.
I noticed that some of the phishing emails that I receive, when I click on the link and then delete the phishing portion of the url back to the main website homepage, the urls that they take me to are part of some fairly respectable looking websites. Does this mean that the website owners are not aware that their sites are being used for phishing puposes? How is this being done?
PS. Just spotted another thread in ther internet marketing forum that I could have tagged this onto
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26-05-2008, 12:50 AM
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Re: phishing scams.
Yes, but the goal is to make respectable looking websites so that make you belive that it is a honest website. You need to check the domain, if it is a real domain or domain created for the phising propose.
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26-05-2008, 07:53 AM
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Re: phishing scams.
Seems odd... From your sig, you appear to be a hosting company, but are giving advise on how to make a phishing site more believable
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26-05-2008, 08:23 AM
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Re: phishing scams.
You're right, geti, it's quite common for phishing websites to be hosted on hacked hosting accounts.
Not long ago I was going through an old back-up of one of my sites, when I found a fold I didn't recognise - and you've guessed it, in there was a phishing page. Someone had hacked my site just to upload a phishing attack. When surprised me is that I never knew about it - even the backup was an old version. A danger, I guess, of leaving insecure script installs on your hosting, I guess - and the bane of webhosts everywhere. 
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26-05-2008, 11:24 AM
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Re: phishing scams.
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monaghan, The best way we have to protect our hosting clients and our servers is to know how this thinks works and to inform our customers about this kind of attacks. I am not giving an advise on how to make a phishing site, but how it works so you can be aware and take the appropriate security messarues. We are currently working on a security newsletter that will explain all this kind of attacks and how you can protect yourself from them. I hope you will have time to read our newsletter and fell free to make any comment or suggestion about it. All the best,
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29-05-2008, 05:20 PM
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Re: phishing scams.
Kind of scary, Brian.
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10-06-2008, 11:27 AM
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Re: phishing scams.
That has happened to me before with an ebay rip off. The sites can be respectable but sometimes the simply make similar URLs to the respectable sites to keep people unaware of what is going on! Tricky guys or gals
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