[meteorite-list] WARNING !! PAYPAL USERS.

[Darren Garrison]

On Fri, 27 May 2005 22:46:56 +0200 (CEST), "Jan Bartels" <jan at meteorieten.com> 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