"You have 1 New Secure Message!" reads an email sent to reporters statewide this afternoon from a listserv distributing press releases from Attorney General Rob McKenna's office.

The message, purporting to be from the recipient's "Military Bank Online" was, of course, a "phishing" scam aimed at tricking recipients into revealing their account names and passwords.

McKenna is no friend of spammers and phishing con artists, winning a $3.3 million judgement in December against one spammer, and suing several others under the state's consumer-protection laws.

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