Sentence examples for a phony site from inspiring English sources

Phishing, the spammer tactic of duping e-mail recipients into logging in to a phony site and then nabbing their personal info, has everyone confused.

Last December, hackers hijacked the Web site CheckFree.com, an online bill payment company, uploading malicious code that redirected visitors to a phony site.

Embedded in the e-mail was a link to the phony site.

The crook sends an e-mail directing unsuspecting consumers to a phony Web site (phishing) or a specific phone number (vishing), where he asks for your credit card number and other basic financial information.

When users entered "China earthquake" into search engines, they saw the phony site listed in the top 10 results.

The phony sites were then used in Iran to spy on as many as 300,000 people, according to a report by a security firm, Fox-IT, that was hired by the Dutch government.

Reporters and researchers in Britain, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Ukraine, Latvia, and Slovakia maintain lists of phony sites, and have helped readers follow the trail of conspiracies as they work their way through Twitter and Facebook.

They load Web pages with keywords to trick people into visiting their phony sites and then infect their computers.

Why these phony sites circulated invented news have come to be isn't the issue.

I  also reported that Neutron attracted visitors to its phony sites by placing ads for non-existent jobs on legitimate job sites like Monster.com.

But on Sunday, Ansar al-Sunna posted an Internet message saying that it had not killed Corporal Hassoun and that someone had put a phony message on the two Web sites.