Anti-Phishing Bill Introduced Just To Make It Even More Illegal
from the in-case-you-weren't-paying-attention dept
Maybe I missed the note, but I was under the impression that "phishing" (tricking people into filling out their personal info into a site they believe is a financial site like Paypal or their bank, but which is really the scammer's own site) was already pretty damn illegal. After all, it is tricking someone into revealing their bank account info, which will then most likely be used to steal money from them. However, just for good measure, a new anti-phishing bill has been introduced in the Senate, making sure it's even more illegal. The argument for doing this is that it's currently difficult to prosecute those scammers involved with phishing, but it's not entirely clear why. It seems like setting up a website to defraud people out of their bank account or credit card info should be an open and shut case of fraud.
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A Thought about this ...
Maybe I am simplifying this, but it ( the new law ) may be because it is hard to prosecute phishers because the victim willing gave up their information.
With a law in place, judges can prosecute.
Of course, I would have assumed that phishing was illegal by the very nature of it being fraudulent.
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Re: A Thought about this ...
It seems likely US law is largely the same.
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is it?
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AntiPhishing Bill
With the new bill, Phishing itself is specifically illegal. You don't have to prove financial losses.
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