It's a real bank, and Wikipedia reports that 98% of all phishing scams these days use its name. Given that, it's interesting that their Web site doesn't say a word about the problem, which I suspect just encourages the phishers to keep on using it. A bank that won't take the elementary step of warning its customers about this is asking for serious trouble.

I hadn't thought about playing off FTB against the Nigerian scammers. Good one, Bowser. When I played along a scammer, I had to make up a bank in Texas, run by good old JR Ewing hisself, to handle the transfer of the chest of gold. Getting a Nigerian scammer to go to a phishing site to set up an account is wicked cool justice, Bowze.