Useful (much posted) link for validating phishing activities.

http://www.phishtank.com/

-JoelW

2008/11/16 Jeffrey A. Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>
Hi Barry,

 I have seen Phishers target ISP accounts many times before.
Pretty common in the US.

Barry Murphy wrote:

> Evening,
>
> Anyone from slingshot on here and can confirm this is a phishing site or
> some strange 3rd party site that slingshot is using? Never seen phishers
> target ISP accounts before?
>
> I have an italk account with slingshot, so this makes me wonder if perhaps
> a database has been compromised containing email accounts, or if someone
> is just targeting any & every .nz email address; has anyone else without a
> slingshot acc seen this?
>
> See attached.
>
> Barry
>
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