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British police have made one of the first arrests in the relatively new Internet scam known as 'phishing' in which crafty programmers create bogus e-mails and Web sites to dupe Internet customers out of their bank details, Reuters reports.
A 21-year-old man is accused of trying to steal the banking details of customers at Internet bank Smile, authorities said on Thursday.
"It is believed this man was a copy-cat phisher, and is not connected to the organized crime group that is behind the global swathe of phishing scams targeting bank users in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the USA," the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit said in a statement.
Some of the largest retail banks in the world, including Barclays, Lloyds TSB and NatWest in the UK, have been hit by phishing scams over the past year. Another favored target is online auction site eBay.
A 21-year-old man is accused of trying to steal the banking details of customers at Internet bank Smile, authorities said on Thursday.
"It is believed this man was a copy-cat phisher, and is not connected to the organized crime group that is behind the global swathe of phishing scams targeting bank users in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the USA," the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit said in a statement.
Some of the largest retail banks in the world, including Barclays, Lloyds TSB and NatWest in the UK, have been hit by phishing scams over the past year. Another favored target is online auction site eBay.