A couple of days before Thanksgiving, mom-and-pop e-tailer Tina Koenig's phone kept ringing with calls from people verifying they'd won a laptop. The only problem: Koenig had no idea what they were
talking about. Cybercriminals had used her online gift store in a "phishing" scam, which set up a fake version of the site to try to extract visitors' credit card information. An e-mail enticed
victims to the fake site by telling them they had a prize. The lure was a free Hewlett-Packard laptop computer.
Read the whole story at Cnet, December 15, 2004
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