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Foz, I've always wondered, do abuse departments try to shut down the immitation websites and crack down on their creators? The offended company must have a lot of legal ground to back them... in the USA only, unfortunately.

Doing that is very difficult. Invariably the fake site is hosted in another country. Even if they do manage to get it shutdown, there will be a significant period of time before they'll manage to do that and during that time you could get hundreds of users going there.

I've seen a few sites which were either hosted on their own cable/DSL connection or it was a compromised computer. Everything would then just trace back to some random person who ran a email worm a few months back.

I think people should be given an test before being allowed near a computer. If they're dumb enough to be fooled by a phishing scam or run a email worm then they shouldn't be given access The phishers, spammers and worm writers know that if they send out enough emails then somebody out there will run it or look at it. Annoying :|