Town North Bank--SCAM

[Dale Gray]

Got an email from them wanting me to log in and check my account for unathorized activity. Never heard of them before. Forewarded the info to Castle Cops.

[Wiz Feinberg]

Got an email from them wanting me to log in and check my account for unathorized activity. Never heard of them before. Forewarded the info to Castle Cops.

Good man! Add SpamCop to your reporting arsenal.

The area of CastleCops that deals with phishing websites is called PIRT, which is an acronym for "Phishing Incident Reporting and Termination." The people manning the desks at PIRT are actively involved in getting Phishing websites removed from their hosting servers and phish domains rescinded by the registrars, or having their Name Server records withdrawn (making them unreachable).

I can tell you that there was a large upswing in the volume of Phishing scams since May this year (08). Security experts running honeypots that capture spam, or allow themselves to become infected by spambots, have learned that much of the Phishing email is now being spewed out by zombie computers in the Asprox Fast Flux Botnet. The people behind these scams are known as "The Rock Phish Gang." The computers that make up this Botnet are infected by viewing compromised web pages, infected via SQL vulnerability attacks also carried out by the Asprox Bot.