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Dave Cole | November 13th, 2006
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This past spring we announced that Phish Report Network (PRN) was officially open for any organization who wanted to have phishing attacks against their brand blocked through the PRN’s community of solution providers, including Yahoo, Netscape, Symantec and others. This was (and still is) completely free of charge to the organization sending the data. We’re now pleased to announce that anyone, from Grandma Jones in Topeka to Uncle Jack in Melbourne, can now submit their fresh phish to the PRN. It’s a piece of cake to do and mostly consists of copying the URL of the fraudulent Web site into a submission form at the following location: https://submit.symantec.com/antifraud/phish.cgi

Once we receive the suspicious URLs, we vet them both programmatically as well as manually to make sure it is indeed a fraudulent...