Like Shooting Phish in a Bucket

Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror had a post today about Phishing. He cited J. D. Tygar's study on Why Phishing Works. The numbers scared me, because as an avid user, you really don't pay any attention to the address bar, and you will NEVER know whether or not you have been phished.

I have known a few people to employ phishing techniques to gain popularity on certain social networking sites.

I myself have a site that is a phish of google, first start by going here and looking at the original page http://www.google.com then go to the phishing site http://www.infinicastonline.com/GooglePhish/. Tell for yourself how easily mistaken you can get by the way they look.