FYI...

- http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix...sh_fighter.html
January 31, 2007 ~ "...February marks the 5th anniversary of CastleCops.com -- an all-volunteer led forum that has morphed from a place where people can diagnose security problems with their PCs into one of the most active phish fighting forums -- and the group is releasing some interesting data to highlight its accomplishments. The online help forum is the public face of CastleCops, but the group has made a greater impact on consumer security and privacy through its Phishing Incident Response Team (PIRT). The team shares with law enforcement real-time data that could help bring the phishers to justice, along with financial information stolen from consumers... CastleCops' PIRT began sharing its phishing data with federal law enforcement agencies in June 2006. Since then, the group has intercepted stolen data from roughly 450 distinct phishing scams. If we conservatively assume that the average credit card has a balance limit of $500 and that the average phishing scam nets about 100 victims, CastleCops has prevented more than $22 million worth of fraudulent credit card charges since the middle of last year..."