Phishing, or using social engineering techniques to convince people to divulge private information (such as passwords, credit card numbers, and so forth) is nothing new. It's also nothing new that there are people out there gullible enougn to fall for it. While Windows PC users are all too familiar with such attacks, Mac users shrug them off, thinking their system's security is bulletproof and such things can't happen to them. So, it's always interesting when you see Mac users fall for something they think only affects Windows.
According to ITBusiness.ca, hundreds of users of Apple's .Mac and MobileMe services were duped into divulging credit card and other presonal information. The article says that "This particular phishing campaign scammed between 100 and 200 people with mac.com addresses in just one day... The records [snip] included full names, mailing addresses, credit card numbers, card security numbers, birth dates, mother's maiden names, [email addresses, and passwords.]"
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