Re: Discovering and Stopping Phishing/Scam Attacks

Rainer Duffner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.incidents
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dave Greer wrote:

>Here is a scenario -
>
>Victim connects to Fake.com
>Fake.com prompts for username/password
>Fake.com connects to Real.com, enters username/password, recieves Third Field
>Fake.com presents Third Field to Victim
>Victim enters Third Field
>
>That seems like a reasonable scenario
>
>  
>


There have already been ebay-fakes that did this.
You couldn't enter fake credentials into their scam-site - it verified 
if login/password worked.



cheers,
Rainer

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