The letters request that companies visit a fraudulent website (that has since been closed down) and make a payment via credit/debit card.

While on Google's search results page, Plaintiff clicked on advertisements that led her to allegedly fraudulent websites.

The link directs the victim to a fraudulent website or message that appears legitimate.

A fraudulent website is set up by offenders, which appears to be the website of the actual financial institution.

When sensitive information is requested by a fraudulent website, it is called phishing.

Many people used this program at the same time, and a fraudulent website was quickly taken offline.

This list now contains more than 31,000 websites (as of November 24, 2008), and is one of the world's largest databases of fraudulent websites.

The fraudulent website will then remain off-line until the following month, when the bandwidth quota is re-set.

Finally, be wary of providing any personal information through these fraudulent websites and emails, since such action that could result in identity fraud or theft.

Banks hope that the system will reduce the risk of unsuspecting customers entering their details into fraudulent websites after reading so-called phishing emails.