The "Phishing" Season May End with ITPEA

according to this CNet article. "Phishing" is using email to steer people to phony web sites set up to look like the real ones, usually bank or credit card web sites, to steal confidential information. The new Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act (ITPEA) targets phishing as one mode of identity theft for mandatory prison terms. Phishing attempts have blossomed nationwide since September of 2003. We now get several phishing emails per week for bank and credit card accounts and they are quite convincing these days to an unwary eye. Originally, they were easy to spot because of poor grammar and spelling errors.