On Fri, 27 May 2005 22:46:56 +0200 (CEST), "Jan Bartels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dear Darren. > >Very amusing this way of responding. I asume i am way behind of things you >have expierienced already way back in the 90's? > Yep. Enter the term "phishing" in google, and you'll get over 7 million hits. Enter "phishing" in the google news section and you'll get over 2 thousand. It is a from a class of hacking known as "social engineering"-- why use software to get people's private info when you can trick them into telling you themselves? See this entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing And this story (I intentionally picked one that mentioned the Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/uk/veiligheid/phishing/ and this one: http://news.google.com/news?q=phishing&num=100&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8 ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
