[Web4lib] Phishing exploits in emails

[Thomas Edelblute]

I have seen many reports like this one that shows the United States
still leads the world in Phishing and Spam.

 http://www.phishtank.com/stats/2006/10/


Thomas Edelblute, Public Access Systems Coordinator
Anaheim Public Library

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Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:55 PM
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Subject: [Web4lib] Phishing exploits in emails

I have been getting a lot of phishing emails supposedly from Amazon.
It is quite irritating since I do a lot of business on Amazon.  I looked
at the source code for one of the messages and found this web address:
//www.holyspirit-indy.org/pack46/.support/www.amazon.com/flex/sign-out.h
tml/2Fhomepage=protocol=httpsaction=sign-out/exec.php?cmd=sign-in
 
I went to the website www.holyspirit-indy.org and found the website for
the Holy Spirit Catholic Church of Indianapolis.  I called them to tell
them that their webserver was being used for phishing exploits.  The
priest I talked to was quite happy to have my phone call.  He was going
to talk to their website administrator.  Is this type of hack common and
how do idiots get this type of access?  I am curious since most of the
phish e-mails I get come from places like China, South Korea, or Russia.
 

Wilfred (Bill) Drew
Associate Librarian, Systems and Reference Morrisville State College
Library
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deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin, 1759

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