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Default More ado with phishing..

On Feb 23, 2:44*pm, Tim wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

If you get these damned things there is a place to report them


http://www.antiphishing.org/report_phishing.html


do so.


Life is just *way* too short for me to do this at least 10 times a day. *I
feel sorry for pensioners and net newbies who get caught by these scams but
I very much doubt that end recipient reporting is the way to go about
dealing with these.

I'm sure that if the will (and the money) existed, 99.9% of them could be
intercepted at server level. *As it is, Yahoo and Google are very good at
filtering them already so the technology exists. *Along with that, no one
should leave school or finish a computing course of any kind without being
taught about Internet scams.


They are taught about them. Some even become very goos at them :-)

MBQ