Vigilant staff avert phishing scam

Scammers halted in their tracks

A web-hosting company based in New Zealand claims that, thanks to the vigilance of its staff, it has averted a potential phishing scam targeted at customers of National Bank.

Staff of Auckland-based Web Drive suspected that something fishy (or phishy) was going on when they spotted an overseas user who had registered around 25 variations of the National Bank's web address using several different credit card numbers.

Web Drive staff were quick to react, cancelling the domains and re-registering them in the web hosting company's own name to prevent them from being registered elsewhere.

01 March 2006

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