Terrorists using Phishing Sites
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Examples of terrorists using Phishing to fund their operations Terrorist Groups Relying on Identity Theft for Funding and Operations Identity Theft and Terrorism: Collins indicates that 5 percent of all identity thieves are connected to terrorism and 2 percent, specifically to al-Qaida. In fact, the a-Qaida terrorist involved in the September 11, 2001 attacks had opened 14 bank accounts using several different names, all of which were fake or stolen. Experts caution that this problem is not going away anytime soon and that the use of identity theft as a catalyst for terrorist funding and operations, will rise significantly.
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