MillerSmiles.co.uk Provides Latest Anti-Phishing Updates

 MillerSmiles.co.uk is one of the internet’s leading anti-phishing sites, maintaining a massive archive of phishing and identity theft email scams.  This organizations provides the latest information on phishing scams.  MillerSmiles.co.uk actually keeps its phishing database updated from contributions from people around the world, including email administrators.

MillerSmiles.co.uk was originally founded in February of 2003 by Mat Bright. His intention was to use the site to sell and promote his love of Book Collecting, but when becoming involved in using eBay, he found that buying and selling online had many dangers. The biggest of these was the threat from spoof email and phishing scams, and users of eBay seemed to be the main targets.

Appalled at the lack of insight for internet users about this kind of identity theft and fraud, Mat set about posting snapshots of the emails and bogus web pages on the site with the intention of building awareness. What followed was a surprise…

Mat began receiving copies of other spoof eBay emails from fellow internet users who came across his site. He decided to expand and develop the site into an awareness building tool and a weapon against the perpetrators of these crimes. Having a security professional background he was up to the task, and set about logging reports of the spoof emails he received daily.

In late 2003, Tam Digital took over the running of millersmiles.co.uk with a view to developing the spoof email and phishing scam section of the site. This they did, and the site and its archive of reports continued to grow rapidly.

Then in early 2004 the site changed hands again, and Oxford Information Services Ltd stepped into the fold. They continue to run the site to this day, maintaining an ever-expanding archive of scam reports dating back over two years.

In February 2004, millersmiles.co.uk launched the world’s first scam alert service using an RSS news feed. RSS is a growing technology with rapidly increasing numbers of users. You can now include RSS news feeds in your Yahoo page for instance, and all of the major sites on the web now have a news feed of some sort, (including Yahoo, CNet , CNN and the BBC).

The scam alert news feed can also be used by webmasters within their own web pages and many sites have taken the opportunity to help millersmiles.co.uk build awareness and bring the growing problem of identity theft using spoof emails and bogus web content to the forefront of surfers’ experience.

millersmiles.co.uk continues to stand out as the prime international source of information about spoof emails and phishing scams, with a vast library of real examples including details and images of the emails themselves and related bogus web content.