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EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - The e-mail appeared to be a routine correspondence between two friends. "Check this out!" it read, then listed a Web address.
But the note was fake, part of an online ruse called phishing that has become a scammer's favorite way to get sensitive information from unsuspecting computer users.
The catch? The scammers were Indiana University researchers, the e-mail an experiment.
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