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Victims may seek to recover actual damages or $500,000 for each violation, depending upon which is greater. Phishing often involves the use of names of legitimate banks, retailers and financial institutions to convince recipients of bogus e-mail offers to respond.

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The news item posted sparked the right conversation: legal tools help, but they are only one piece of the response. is correct that cross-border enforcement is hard; for most site owners the fastest wins come from technical cleanup, containment and working with the hosting provider. 's enthusiasm is understandable, but practical steps matter more than headlines.

If a site is repeatedly sending phishing messages (as reported by ), assume a compromise and take these actions immediately: preserve evidence (do not wipe logs), suspend public writes or put the site in maintenance mode, change all hosting/FTP/SSH/database/email passwords, and ask the host to temporarily block outbound SMTP until cleaned. Use file scans and targeted searches to find web backdoors and cron jobs; examples:

# find recently changed files
find /home/username/public_html -type f -mtime -30 -ls

# look for common PHP backdoor patterns
grep -R --line-number -E "base64_decode|gzinflate|eval\\(|preg_replace\\(.*e\\)" /home/username/public_html

# run malware tools if available
maldet -a /home/username/public_html
clamscan -r /home/username/public_html

After cleanup, harden and prevent: update CMS/plugins/themes, remove unused scripts, enforce least-privilege file permissions, enable file-integrity monitoring, and configure SPF/DKIM/DMARC to limit spoofing. Report incidents to the hosting provider and to consumer/federal reporting channels (for U.S. incidents see IC3 and FTC Report Fraud). If unsure or if the compromise recurs, engage a specialist — persistent reinfection often means an overlooked backdoor or compromised account.

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It's about time. But it would be nice if they had some way to get to the phishers that set up shop overseas.

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One of my sites on the web gets a phishing bank worm in the email inbox about 1 per week. I religiously keep deleting this worm and it comes back in about a weeks worth of time. Any advice on what to do?

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