How illegal is phishing?

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knightofarmor

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Not sure where to post this thread so move it if its in the wrong place..

Basically I need to know what kind of trouble I can get into with phishing? I'm not scamming or stealing peoples info. All I've done is copy a certain page with very little content on it. I did this all with one big screenshot. So my site shares the same logo and layout. I took out the footer with all the copyright stuff.

My first question is: is this illegal? If so, will I get caught? How do I avoid getting caught? And would you recommend against this?


Thanks
 
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if you are not stealing peoples info then it isn't phishing. all you are doing is copying other peoples content and that's not a serious crime
 
skrode said:
if you are not stealing peoples info then it isn't phishing. all you are doing is copying other peoples content and that's not a serious crime
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I hope so. ANy other info on this would be great. ALso, should I be worried about geting banned from my hosting company for this?
 
Phishing is illegal if you steal people data etc.

You could get into trouble if you using other people info as well .
 
First, google the term. Second, if what you're doing doesn't fit the description, then you're pagliarizing, which is definitely not nice either, but not as aggravating.
 
knightofarmor said:
Not sure where to post this thread so move it if its in the wrong place..

Basically I need to know what kind of trouble I can get into with phishing? I'm not scamming or stealing peoples info. All I've done is copy a certain page with very little content on it. I did this all with one big screenshot. So my site shares the same logo and layout. I took out the footer with all the copyright stuff.

My first question is: is this illegal? If so, will I get caught? How do I avoid getting caught? And would you recommend against this?

Thanks
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In most countries I would figure that what your describing isn't legal - but it also isn't phishing. It would be copyright infringement... but I've heard methods on here that do something similar. If you kept it low key and low volume, and keep the domain private, in my opinion, it would be low(er) risk.
 
If you're phising credit cards, full personal info (SSN etc) or logins, enjoy your time in jail.

If you're simply using duplicate content, enjoy being on the bottom of Google (in general).
 
Thank you for your replies. Sorry for the misuse of the term "phishing". I guess I'm just plagiarizing. I just bought domain privacy with my hosting company.

As far as not being ranked, this doesn't matter since I drive traffic with alternative methods.

I guess the only thing I have to be worried about now is being banned by my hosting company?
 
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