Bringing down phishers

I wrote in the morning to this institution the message below.

"Hi,
Your website hosts a phishing site  for Wachovia Bank.
Please remove this path on your webserver:

http://pastandfutureofmoney.nl/login/ssPageName=hhpayUSf&=user....
"

Thank you. We will contact you as soon as possible.

G. C. Nieuwland, PHvL

And now the answer:

Thank you for reporting this!

We were victim of hacking. We have removed all files of this phishing-pages!

Floris

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