To learn more about the threats of political phishing, and the risks such attacks pose to the online campaign fundraising model, please look at:

The Threat of Political Phishing (pdf), a white paper by Christopher Soghoian and Markus Jakobsson.

and

The slides (pdf) from Christopher's talk at the 2007 Anti-Phishing Working Group eCrime Researchers Summit.

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Legal Disclaimer: The white paper and slides, and the synthetic figures contained within them are the creations of the authors, and are being used solely for non-commercial purposes to demonstrate the threats of political phishing. The threats discussed in the paper are not intrinsic to the candidates we have selected. The candidates who we have used as examples have been used solely because they are high profile and have name recognition. The phenomenon we describe is one that could be used against any candidate, of either party.

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