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by ced 5908 days ago
Isn't this incredibly simple to defeat? The phishing site can send your username to the real bank's website and retrieve the image.
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If you do that, the bank will notice a bunch of connections from the same IP for different usernames.

You could use a botnet to do the lookups, but that still makes the attack substantially more difficult.