Via The Domains:

esterday Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) with support of Senator, Bill Nelson (D-Florida) and Senator, Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), introduced, a bill entitled “The Anti-Phishing Consumer Protection Act of 2008″

The stated purpose of the bill is to stop the practice of phishing e-mails and websites.

A Phishing is a scam whereby people receive e-mails or instant messages directing them to go to websites which are usually set up to look identical to the site that the internet user has an account with, and then tries to get the user to enter personal information into the fake website, such as their login info, user id and password. The scammers then use this information to access the internet user’s actual account and scam them out of their money.

There is a serious and substantial phishing problem going on. I personally receive these types of e-mail many times each day both from banks and institutions I do business with, and many I do not.

Of course, we are all smart enough to know not to answer these, but millions of internet users are not.

These are the same people that sent their money to Nigeria and waited for their 30 million to arrive.

This part of the bill no one can object to.

This is a scam that must stop.

However, the problem we have as domainers is that this bill goes MUCH further.

snowe-apcpa_xml1.pdf.

I will have to take time to digest all this. Very interesting stuff, analysis.

Sahar

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