HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Chances are you or someone you know has been victimized by email phishing. If it's any reassurance, it's not a small club to belong to. In fact, millions of people and companies are defrauded every year by spam and phishing.

Can industry heavyweights Google, PayPal, Microsoft and AOL -- along with 11 others in high-tech such as Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as the financial world's Bank of America and Fidelity Investments -- succeed in stopping phishing attacks right in their tracks? In uniting behind an effort called DMARC.org unveiled today, the group says it can through policy-based steps filter out spoofed ...

Google, Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn and others are partnering with financial institutions as DMARC to educate customers about online scams.