[pchelpers] News:School Conducts Anti-Phishing Research

By RYAN LENZ
Associated Press Writer
July 22, 2007, 12:37 PM EDT

EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- The e-mail appeared to be a routine correspondence
between two friends. "Check this out!" it read, then listed a Web
address. 

But the note was fake, part of an online ruse called phishing that has
become a scammer's favorite way to get sensitive information from
unsuspecting computer users.

The catch? The scammers were Indiana University researchers, the e-mail
an experiment. 

"I didn't know I was being used," said Kevin McGrath, 25, a doctoral
student at Indiana University whose e-mail address was one of hundreds
used as "passive participants" for an experiment to study who gets duped
by phishing.

More here:
http://www.newsday.com/technology/wire/sns-ap-phony-phishing,0,2508048.story?coll=sns-ap-technology-headlines
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