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China earthquake donation phishing attack

Date:05.19.2008

Threat Type: Phishing Alert

Websense® Security Labs™ has discovered phishing attacks that target donors to victims of the recent earthquake in China. The phishing site poses as a representative of the Red Cross and provides multiple bank account numbers for donors to wire their donations to. The ISC has previously blogged on this scam.

This phishing site is hosted in China and is down at the time of this alert.

Phishing screenshot 1:

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Websense customers are protected from this attack