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Personally, I plan on joining this, and reporting some more phishes as I get them. Having not seen a proper clearinghouse mechanism in the past, I've only reported the ones I had time to report...to the compromised site and/or the company that's been spoofed. If you can, lend a hand to these fine folks!

PIRT rocks!: "Gary Warner, a steadfast volunteer who works on PIRT (the all-volunteer antiphishing group I started with Paul and Robin Laudanski), has some news to share of how well it’s going. It’s just incredible what’s happening out there — PIRT is really making a difference.

From an email from Gary:

Every day the PIRT Squad receives dozens of thank you notes from Brand Owners, Web Masters, and Network Owners, thanking us for letting them know about the Phish we have reported to them.

Do you know that NetCraft, who has an Anti-Phishing Toolbar used by tens of thousands of people to help protect themselves from phishing sites, says our team is #1 at reporting phish? This month we have notified them of 631 phishing sites that they have confirmed themselves to be phish. That is more than 40% of all the phishing sites confirmed by NetCraft for the month! (In May, we reported 1593 phishing URLs to them that they confirmed we were the FIRST anti-phishers to report!)

May was an INCREDIBLE month for PIRT. We produced 1143" ...

From: Sunbelt Blog