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jca111 · 09-04-2008, 17:41

Alex @ Phorm

What about the potential Fraud that may be occurring by your system pretending to be a web site that it is not?

From Dr Richard Clayton white paper on how Phorm works:

"The Layer 7 switch will see that the request does not contain a Phorm "cookie" and will direct the request to a machine located within the ISP network that will pretend to be www.cnn.com and will return a "307" response which says, in effect, "you want that page over there". The page that will be directed to is webwise.net/bind/?<parameters>where the parameters record the original URL that was wanted."

The key is "will pretend to be www.cnn.com" (or obviously any other website you are surfing.

Is this not a Fraud against Fraud Act 2006, and exactly the same type of Fraud as Phishing, by impersonating a website that you are not?

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jca111 Inactive Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 58	Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797] Alex @ Phorm What about the potential Fraud that may be occurring by your system pretending to be a web site that it is not? From Dr Richard Clayton white paper on how Phorm works: "The Layer 7 switch will see that the request does not contain a Phorm "cookie" and will direct the request to a machine located within the ISP network that will pretend to be www.cnn.com and will return a "307" response which says, in effect, "you want that page over there". The page that will be directed to is webwise.net/bind/?<parameters>where the parameters record the original URL that was wanted." The key is "will pretend to be www.cnn.com" (or obviously any other website you are surfing. Is this not a Fraud against Fraud Act 2006, and exactly the same type of Fraud as Phishing, by impersonating a website that you are not?