On 5 Nov 2011, at 09:14, Lou Gogan wrote:
Firstly, it is not the job of the Bank of Ireland to persue fraudsters all around the world merely because they are pretending to be the BOI.
Actually it is ..
This is an attempt to steal money from people. It is a crime. The only main contact with the criminals is the ISP.
That's based on an assumption that the ISP / hosting provider actually has contact with the phisher. In most cases they wouldn't, as the bulk of phishing attacks go via compromised hosting accounts and / or accounts that lead to chargebacks
They will know the acual contact details of the criminls,
Doubtful - see above
hopefully, and can act on that, or at the very least shut that link down pronto.
Secondly, there are many scams out there trying to con people into giving details of their credit cards etc with no direct connection to any bank - thus the abuse contact details still should be easy to obtain so a report can be sent from anyone aware of a fraud attempt, even a Lou Blogs.
Thought experiment: If you saw a bank robbery and the thieves were using a HONDA as the getaway car, would you contact HONDA or would you contact the police? To a certain degree you are saying I should contact Honda, whereas I would consider contacting the police, or someone who can contact the police - in this case the ISP.
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