{"id":53,"date":"2004-10-17T10:47:29","date_gmt":"2004-10-17T17:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/index.php\/archives\/2004\/10\/17\/phishing-for-jurisdiction\/"},"modified":"2006-09-27T15:32:05","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T22:32:05","slug":"phishing-for-jurisdiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2004\/10\/phishing-for-jurisdiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishing for Jurisdiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim has a post<\/a> and won\u00adders why the crim\u00adin\u00adals are so blatant when it should be easy to track them down. <\/p>\n

I think the answer is simple \u2014 nobody feels that they\u2019re responsible. <\/p>\n

We live in Canada, the phish\u00ading attempt was about a US<\/span> com\u00adpany, and the phish\u00ading script is run\u00adning on a Thai web site. That\u2019s a min\u00adim\u00adum of three police forces that would need to agree a) that it\u2019s a prob\u00adlem, b) that it\u2019s a prob\u00adlem they should do some\u00adthing about, c) that it\u2019s a prob\u00adlem they can do some\u00adthing about and d) that it\u2019s a prob\u00adlem they should work togeth\u00ader to solve. Point a) sounds trivi\u00adal, but depends on the pre\u00adcise laws in three coun\u00adtries (as an inter\u00adest\u00ading aside, in the dim recesses of my memory I remem\u00adber read\u00ading some\u00adwhere that for some years it was not illeg\u00adal to coun\u00adter\u00adfeit cur\u00adren\u00adcies in Aus\u00adtralia as long as you did\u00adn\u2019t coun\u00adter\u00adfeit the Aus\u00adtrali\u00adan cur\u00adrency). Point b) depends on wheth\u00ader the vari\u00adous police forces think it\u2019s a worse prob\u00adlem than many oth\u00aders they have to solve. And I would think that rip\u00adping rich-world people off for some money is way below people traf\u00adfick\u00ading (to give just one example) in terms of inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal police priorities.<\/p>\n

Of course, the Thai gov\u00adern\u00adment could decide that such phish\u00ading attempts occur\u00adring on Thai web sites were dis\u00adturb\u00ading poten\u00adtial investors in Thai\u00adl\u00adand and do some\u00adthing about it on their own, much as I gath\u00ader the Nigeri\u00adan gov\u00adern\u00adment is tak\u00ading steps to clean up the Nigeri\u00adan spam prob\u00adlem. That does assume the prob\u00adlem is per\u00adceived as being big enough to be worth solv\u00ading. In this case, you nev\u00ader know. thaiedresearch.org is registered to the \u201cOffice of the Edu\u00adca\u00adtion Coun\u00adcil\u201d which sounds at least semi-offi\u00adcial; do they know about the phish\u00ading script? If they know, do they care?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim has a post and won\u00adders why the crim\u00adin\u00adals are so blatant when it should be easy to track them down.  I think the answer is simple \u2014 nobody feels that they\u2019re respons\u00adible.  We live in Canada, the phish\u00ading attempt was about a US<\/span> com\u00adpany, and the phish\u00ading script is run\u00adning on a Thai web site. \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cPhish\u00ading for Jurisdiction\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}