Microsoft and Interpol cast nets for phishers
Suspects have used Microsoft’s online tools like MSN and Hotmail to create fake identities and support web sites. Customers would be deceived into providing credit card and personal details, which would then be used to impersonate them for fraudulent purposes.
Vnunet.com reports that Interpol’s financial and hi-tech crime unit is helping Microsoft prosecute suspected criminals. This forms part of GPEI: the Global Phishing Enforcement Initiative, which was announced in Brussels on Wednesday. EuroISPA is also a member of this initiative.
According to Vnunet.com, one of the major hurdles in tracking and prosecuting phishers is the fact that they move shop so often from one country to another. Interpol is instrumental in tracing and prosecuting them across international borders.
The international policing agency is also trying to persuade governments to sign up to the Council of Europe’s cyber crime convention, which will address such issues.
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