John Cheney

Phishing is as lucrative as it is prolific. According to the latest official figures from UK payments body, APACS, phishing scams and Trojan keystroke loggers were behind UK online bank fraud totalling £12m in 2004; while BlackSpider Technologies estimates that nearly seven million phishing emails have been sent across the UK in the last month alone.

SC Magazine asked John Cheney, Matt Sergeant and Alyn Hockey for the methods and dastardly tricks that spammers use to evade spam defenses. Here are some tactics the good guys discovered during the fight