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• Oct 17, 2006 8:50 pm US/Pacific
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Sites Offer Ways To Fight Back Against Phishing

(CBS 5) Almost everyone who has an e-mail account has probably recieved phish. They look like e-mails from legitimate businesses, but they are really angling for your personal information. And a growing number of people are taking the bait.

By some estimates, phishing costs consumers up to $1 billion dollars a year. A study released this month found as many as 14 percent of targets may be duped into responding, that's three times greater than previously thought.

Jeanette Pavini reports on a site that shows how people can fight phishing.

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