Fishing vs phishing

• 10 September, 2009
• Imagini

An email was sent to hundreds of BNZ customers advising them to update their account
preferences by entering their details using a link that directed them to a site overseas.

The site was taken down on Monday morning by the bank’s fraud department.

BNZ head of fraud and security Mike Burn says the bank has a standard response to
fishing scams of this kind, which is to contact the site’s service provider.

Mr Burn says fishing is reasonably common.

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