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where to find where to report phish

John Levine's network abuse clearinghouse at
http://www.abuse.net
maintains a database of abuse reporting
addresses. If you have a modern operating
system, you can use the Whois client program that
came with it, and query whois.abuse.net directly.
If you are stuck with an inferior operating
system, you will have to find an online whois
service that lets you specify a whois server.
Yahoo has a list of those. Or just use the query
box at http://abuse.net/lookup.phtml

According to whois.abuse.net, the reporting
address for chase.com abuse is the standard
(RFC2142) address, abuse@chase.com. They don't
need to see the spam and you don't have to fiddle
around with your "user friendly" email client to
capture the headers without munging them beyond
usefulness, just send Chase the URL of the phish
site being advertised. Or do them a favor and
test the URL and send them your trace and the
Whois data for the host and the domain.
Sometimes there are redirects, and they need the
final URL with the fake Chase site, not the Yahoo
or Google redirect that leads to it.

Beware: you can assume any URL advertised in spam
is hostile and will try to install Microsoft
malware on your system. Never test a hostile URL
with MS-Internet Explorer. Instead, use a
browser that won't automatically infect your
Microsoft box with Microsoft malware.

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