Latest phishing scam goes low tech

Thursday, 11 August 2005, 3:22 PM EST

Security companies are warning of a new type of phishing scam that uses decidely low-tech methods to harvest information.

The scam has been started with spam emails purporting to come from PayPal, the online payment service owned and operated by eBay.

By Iain Thomson at vnunet.

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