Gone phishing...at Yahoo!

"Yahoo! is hosting thousands of fraudulent websites that have domain names containing the words "bank", "PayPal" or "eBay", according to a leading anti-spam group Spamhaus. Spamhaus claims Yahoo! is hosting almost 5,000 domain names using these words, many of which are linked to phishing scams.

Yahoo! says:

"This is the first we have heard of it. We need to investigate this to find out if [people] are violating terms of contract."

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