Anti-Phishing Redirect Saves 11,000 Users

You may remember my recent blog about our network's anti-phishing page. Basically, when we find a compromised account on a server, we apply a redirection on any phish content (dimenoc.com/antiphish) rather than just disabling the page from view. Ray, one of our lead abuse administrators, analyzed the web stats for our phishing redirect page. In only four months over 11,000 unique IP addresses have hit the page. Can you believe it? Some of those visitors may not have fell for the scams (had they still been online), but for the rest: this amount of visits is startling. I was not expecting so many hits! I thought the Internet community was largely around this curve. There is obviously a lot of teaching yet to be done.

I am very pleased that those Internet users have been saved by our actions. Hopefully many of them will never click such links again and help others to understand the same. This redirection method may be one of our last chances to educate, at least where "phish spam" is concerned.

Our overall experience with this has truly inspired me so I will be writing further about this topic in my next post. Feel free to comment with your thoughts and any ideas.

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