It is also possible that the fake website will refuse
access a number of times, in the hope that the user will
try the other passwords he frequently uses and thus end
the scam with a richer booty.
There are many variants to the main theme appearing on the
scene??”daily. The phishing mails can ride the economy of scale,
like spam. Of the millions of recipients reached, only a small
percentage will actually have an account with the bank used as
bait; and an even smaller percentage (although it can still be an
enormous number in absolute terms) will fall into the trap.
However, the prize of a successful phishing session is magnitudes
above the value obtained with sheer commercial spam. It
is not uncommon to ?¬?nd targeted spam, too; instead of broadcasting
to an enormous number of random people, some phishers
track customers of retail and auction sites for careless and
high-volume spending behaviors. Crafting mails speci?¬?cally
targeted to those smaller audiences require a bigger investment,
but the chances of a successful scam increase by a large factor.
Phishing is truly the poster child for how the problems of our era
are inextricably entangled together. (We often come back to this
topic with more details in the upcoming sections.
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