Reporting phishing
A reader of the earlier post on phishing scams involving Chase Bank asked as pertinent question. What’s the best response to such a scam attempt?
Many companies — but by no means all — have a place on their Web sites where you can report scam or forward a bogus message you’ve received.
Here’s also some good advice from a consortium of government fraud-fighting agencies:
Forward spam that is phishing for information to spam@uce.gov and to the company, bank, or organization impersonated in the phishing email. Most organizations have information on their websites about where to report problems. You also may report phishing email to reportphishing@antiphishing.org. The Anti-Phishing Working Group, a consortium of ISPs, security vendors, financial institutions and law enforcement agencies, uses these reports to fight phishing.