Zachary Keith Hill Busted for "Phishing"

according to this PC World article. Phishing is an identity theft scam where an email that masquerades as a real email from a credit card company, Paypal or other financial institution asks the receiver to click on a link and fill in a form that has credit card numbers and other personal financial information. It's not too hard to believe but a lot of people have fallen for this particular scam because the bogus emails and web sites with the forms are many times very good forgeries. Frequently, the emails have obvious gramatical errors but, hey, people still fall for the so-called Nigerian scam which we find hard to believe. Hill of Houston, TX, was busted for this identity theft scam while awaiting sentencing on federal criminal charges. [Dana Baggett]