you are right in the observation the phishing site was hosted on a free hosting service http://www.my.gp/whois
the site that was phished .. http://www.allliance-bankonline.my.gp also verified as a phishing site on http://www.phishtank.com/phish_detail.php?phish_id=1170251 On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Ghodmode <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> dear all >> >> how to trace information about a phishing website >> >> already tried whois and ipcheck >> >> are there any other tools to find out more info about a phishing site ? >> > > Have you had any luck finding more information about the phishing web site? > > Are you trying to find out about a particular phishing site, or just a list > of sites to avoid in general? What's the site? > > If they're clever enough about it, it could be almost impossible to find > the real people behind a fishing web site. People can register by > proxy<https://www.domainsbyproxy.com/popup/whoisexample.aspx?ci=5165&prog_id=452044>, > which means that the registered owner of the domain might have nothing to do > with the actual owner. Then, the real owner of a domain might have nothing > to do with the content of the site. > > If the phishing domain name is very similar to a legitimate company's > domain name, then it's pretty clear that the intention is to deceive the > users of the legitimate domain, but I don't think that there's any easy way > to prove that in a legal sense or make it a crime in itself. > > Personally, I'd love to be part of a team whose job it is to track these > people down and beat them within an inch of their lives, but then I supposed > I would be considered a criminal. > > -- > Ghodmode > http://www.ghodmode.com/blog > > -- > To unsubscribe from and detail about this group > http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information > > MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 and http://portal.mosc.my/ > -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 and http://portal.mosc.my/
