Yahoo! Accused of Hosting Numerous Phishing Sites

Tuesday, September 06, 2005

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According to the anti-spam group Spamhaus, almost 5,000 phishing fraud sites are hosted with Yahoo!

Richard Cox, CIO at Spamhaus, said: "They are hosted on Yahoo! I justtook three hot words, but there are dozens of others includingmisspellings. They are mostly phishing websites, which shows that thesituation is out of control."