I wsa doing a little afternoon reading today over at Slashdot, and found an article about email "Phishing". Essentially, phishing is a fraud scam. The target gets an e-mail alerting them that they need to update their account information, or renew their credit card, or something. Somewhere in the message is a link to a web site that appears to be legit. However, when the victim clicks on the link, they're taken to a web site set up by the phishers. The site looks like the real deal, but it only exists to collect the victim's info - credit card numbers, social security numbers, passwords, etc. For instance, last week I received an e-mail from "US Bank" alerting me that they've ...