{"id":548350,"date":"2006-03-26T13:34:41","date_gmt":"2006-03-26T13:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548350-microsoft-and-interpol-cast-nets-for-phishers.html"},"modified":"2006-03-26T13:34:41","modified_gmt":"2006-03-26T13:34:41","slug":"microsoft-and-interpol-cast-nets-for-phishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548350-microsoft-and-interpol-cast-nets-for-phishers.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft and Interpol cast nets for phishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Suspects have used Microsoft\u2019s 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.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Vnunet.com reports that Interpol\u2019s 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.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">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. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The international policing agency is also trying to persuade governments to sign up to the Council of Europe\u2019s cyber crime convention, which will address such issues.<\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is filing lawsuits against 50 people in Europe, with the help of Interpol. These cases relate to suspected online fraud using deceptive web sites created on MSN or Hotmail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}