Comments on: Surprising Phishing Statistics http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/surprising-phishing-statistics.html personal finance blog with anecdotes, advice and commentary. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:04:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: jim http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/surprising-phishing-statistics.html/comment-page-1#comment-11886 jim Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:37:24 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/surprising-phishing-statistics.html#comment-11886 I bet you the sheer number of zombie boxes wouldn't surprise me but the fact that there are only 5 (I'd expect a little more competition) does. I bet you the sheer number of zombie boxes wouldn’t surprise me but the fact that there are only 5 (I’d expect a little more competition) does.

]]> By: Matt http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/surprising-phishing-statistics.html/comment-page-1#comment-11856 Matt Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:44:55 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/surprising-phishing-statistics.html#comment-11856 Yet another reason not to use HTML emailers. With the text version of an email, you can see when the URLs don't go to www.paypal.com or whatever. But I'm not surprised that they all came from "only" 5 networks. Those networks of hacked windoze boxes are huge. And each one can send out truly massive quantities of whatever spam the hijacker specifies. Yet another reason not to use HTML emailers. With the text version of an email, you can see when the URLs don’t go to http://www.paypal.com or whatever.

But I’m not surprised that they all came from “only” 5 networks. Those networks of hacked windoze boxes are huge. And each one can send out truly massive quantities of whatever spam the hijacker specifies.

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