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After the previous phishing attempts targeting TrafficZ customers it appears that now eNom customers are the target of a new email scam. The best protection against these types of attacks that try to get you to enter your username and password on a fake site, is to enter the URL directly into your browser instead of clicking links in your email.

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Original post by Frank Michlick

For those of you who haven’t heard about it already, Sen. Ted Stevens is proposing the Anti-Phishing Consumer Protection Act of 2008 (APCPA), which is also being supported by CADNA. We were first alerted to this topic by Michael Berkens’ post on The Domains. A recent article by Larry Fischer points out these are the reasons why this act is a bad idea:

1. There are already laws against Phishing.
2. This act makes whois-privacy illegal.
3. The bill would also allow businesses to take over generic domains if they match their business name.

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According to an email by TrafficZ, customers of the parking company have been target of a phishing scam. The email entitled “TrafficZ | Domain Termination Notice” states that one of [the customer’s] domains has been deleted from [their] TrafficZ account and asks them to visit Traffiz.com within 72 hours in order for their account not to be blocked. The link in the email leads the user to TrofficZ.com instead of going to TrafficZ.com. The originators of this phishing scam are attempting to capture the usernames and passwords of the mislead users.

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