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Interpol site spoofed

Beware fake international police organizations...

Practitioners of ur-phish, the 419 scam, have set up a doctored mirror of Interpol's website, as a ruse to ease victims' worries over the legality of handing their bank details over to strangers offering vast sums of cash in return.

Read more at The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/31/scammers_create_interpol_mirror.

Interpol has issued a terse warning about the scam here: http://www.interpol.org/Public/News/2006/news20060727.asp.

02 August 2006

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