Casinos Affected By Phishing

March 5, 2008

As with anything these days, the number of people involved in illegal activities whether on the web or not seems to be increasing. These days it is noticeably the online casinos that are under attack from those that seek to do you harm. Somehow they get their lists of customers from the online casinos and then they target them with their illegal schemes.

Symantec, a well known security firm, had noticed that there had been a lot of attempts on customers to get their personal information, and they were mostly online gambling emails. The phishing attacks were focusing on the online casinos run out of Antigua and the Dutch Antilles, and Symantec first noticed the attacks on the countries and then tracked it back to the casinos.

They say that they are good targets for the phishers as they can usually get a large number of punters to give their information via email, and then they steal their identities. They use their information to open fake accounts and then they launder money through them. They use middlemen to take their money from the online bank accounts and then move it using Western Union.

They are located around the world, so it is tough to narrow them down, and the use of “mules” makes it even harder to find them. Access to the accounts is easy because they have all of the information from the online gambling customers, and they set up pots of games among themselves which allows them to transfer and “launder dirty money.”




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