Reporting Phishing sites

Peter Bates Peter.Bates at lshtm.ac.uk
Mon Jan 15 16:19:17 CET 2007


Hello all...

This isn't solely a technical question
but I thought I'd ask it on multiple lists to see what people think.

I'm running MailScanner, with Postfix as the MTA
and a couple of AV scanners and SpamAssassin.

I've been happy with the results from the Sanesecurity
additional definitions for ClamAV in detecting phishing and 'scam' sites,
above and beyond the MS phishing filter.

The emails end up quarantined as Postfix queue files,
so I do at least have the option of sending them on their way.

However, what I'd like to do is send on these phishing emails
to somewhere that might actually do something about the sites in question.

There are sites like 'www.millersmiles.co.uk' or 'www.antiphishing.org' 
which I could potentially forward the messages to.

I'd just be interested to know

- does anyone report phishing sites this way (in the 'war against spam' it seems an easier target)

- how would they direct the Postfix queue files to the reporting destination

Thanks.


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