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Online Swindlers, Called 'Phishers,' Lure Unwary (New York Times)
Last year, EarthLink, the big Internet access provider, went hunting for phishers. It started a campaign to track down people who were sending e-mail messages that pretended to be from EarthLink but
were actually fraudulent attempts to steal customers' passwords, credit card numbers and other information. What it found was that of the dozen or so people it could clearly identify as engaged in the
practice known as phishing, more than half were under 18.
