Dealing with phishers

There's been a raft of phishing attacks against Universities over the last few months. We received a couple of thousand of these last night:

Subject:  CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
Date:     Tue, 6 May 2008 16:08:53 -0400
From:     CAM SUPPORT TEAM 
Reply-To: 

Dear Cam Subscriber,

To complete your (CAM) account, you must reply to this email
immediately and enter your password here (*********)

Failure to do this will immediately render your email address
deactivated from our database.

You can also confirm your email address by logging into your
CAM account at www.webmail.cam.ac.uk/

Thank you for using CAM.AC.UK!
FROM THE CAM SUPPORT TEAM

We did the usual announcement dance, including a notice on the webmail login page, but this did not prevent some users (including webmail users!) from replying to the phish.

👤captain_aj suggests scanning email to reject it if it contains the user's password. I wonder how long it would take to crypt() every word of every message... :-)