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Phishers trap consumers with cards
Friday, 08 April 2005, 09:39 GMT

Phishers are disguising emails as electronic postcards from family in order to lure consumers to sites that deliver a malicious trojan horse program to their computers.

The latest scheme to commandeer someone's computer to steal passwords, spread spam or attempt some other nefarious act was reported this week by The SANS Institute, a cooperative research and education organisation.

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