The Online World of Crime and Fraud

one of the frauds that mostly got my attention (as it's somehow the one that i mostly could see) is phishing.
It's essentially a very easy system, which can be done in many different ways. In one of the most common ways, the criminal sends a large amount of emails to a large list of addresses of possible victims. The email looks like an official mail, often from the address of a real bank institute or credit card institute, and is asking the victim to visit a website where will be asked for details of the credit card or bank account.
When the victim clicks on the link inside of the email, he/she then goes to a fake page where the details inserted will be stored into the criminal's database.
One interesting technology that tries to solve this problem uses a central server that can collect information about fake websites and alerts the users of this directly into their browser. This technology, integrated into firefox and other browsers, is being used also by Google in its Google Chrome browser