The Greenroom » Reid Campaign Targets Angle Supporters With Phishing Website

The Greenroom » Reid Campaign Targets Angle Supporters With Phishing Website: "A few days ago, Sharron Angle launched a new format to her website, giving the campaign a more professional looking web portal.

Harry Reid’s campaign, however, took the code from the prior Angle website and launched a website called “TheRealSharronAngle.com.” The fake website was what, in internet terminology, is called spoofing, where a seemingly real website is created, usually to obtain information under false pretenses (frequently referred to as “phishing”).

The purported purpose of the spoofed website — according to a press release by the Reid campaign — was to preserve Angle’s position statements on various issues — but that purpose surely was contrived, since Angle’s prior website was cited and quoted extensively. All of Angle’s positions, as reflected on the original website, were fully preserved.

There even was a controversy back in June when the “issues” section of Angle’s original website momentarily disappeared as the website was being revamped, and there were plenty of screen shots and other information preserved from the original website. For example, in early June a reporter easily recovered old Angle web pages from Google Cache.