[pchelpers] News:Phishing attacks ease off

 By  Dan Ilett,  ZDNet (UK)
Published on ZDNet News: March 30, 2005, 10:35 AM PT

*The rate at which identity theft e-mails hit consumers is beginning to 
slow, a study published on Wednesday suggests.*
More here:
http://news.zdnet.com/Phishing+attacks+ease+off/2100-1009_22-5647046.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Note the warning at the bottom of the article relating to a new 
technique called pharming:
 The Wednesday report confirmed that scammers have started using a new 
practice called pharming, a fraud technique that hijacks authentic 
domain names and secretly redirects users to fraudulent Web sites.

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