{Slightly ot} Responding to bank phishing requests?

Matthew Pemble ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:55:13 +0100


Roland Perry wrote:

> In article 
> <37E80E80B681A24B8F768D607373CA8004219BDF@largo.campus.ncl.ac.uk>, C R 
> Ritson <c.r.ritson@newcastle.ac.uk> writes
>
>> Three of us here were commenting on the increasing fidelity of purported
>> re-validation requests that attempt to get you to divulge bank details
>> to criminal third parties.
>>
>> <snip>
>
>
> Vigilantism is rarely useful or officially appreciated, and can lead 
> to nasty accidents.

And wading through the heaps of poorly spelled filth when you actually 
get access to the web-server logs & underlying database isn't even 
entertaining.

M.