Consumer World Blog by MrConsumer

There is an old ploy to get even with conventional junk mailers: send back the prepaid business reply envelope empty, so they have to pay the postage for nothing. Now security experts are flooding phishing sites with fake data. So, if for example a bunch of fake emails are sent out from what purports to be Chase bank, the experts flood the fake Chase site with phony login and account information. That makes it harder for the crooks to figure out which are real account numbers and which are fakes. For more consumer news, visit Consumer World.