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The phishing is good, which is probably not what you wanted to hear. Let's take a look at why and figure out what to watch out for.

April 26th, 2009
By Michael Kassner

Phishing attacks rely on deception, pure and simple. Using realistic looking, but fake Web sites was one of the first techniques used by phishers. Eventually that approach became somewhat ineffective. Web sites didn’t look exactly right or the URL was wrong, alerting us to the deception.

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