Patent ID: 8769671

Claim:
A computer system for responding to a fraudulent attempt to collect personal information, the computer system comprising: a processor; and a memory communicatively coupled with the processor, the memory having stored therein instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: download a web page from a suspicious server; parse the web page to identify a form within the web page, the form comprising at least one field into which a user may enter personal information and a label associated with each field, the label indicating the personal information requested; analyze the at least one field and associated label to identify a type of information requested by the at least one field; determine, based at least in part on analysis of the at least one field and associated label, that the suspicious service is engaged in a fraudulent attempt to collect confidential personal information; generate a set of safe data comprising personal information associated with a fictitious entity; based on analysis of the at least one field and associated label, select at least a portion of the set of safe data comprising the type of information requested by the at least one field and indicated by the associated label; format a response to the web page, the response including the portion of the safe data comprising the type of information requested by the at least one field and indicated by the associated label; and transmit the response to the web page for reception by the suspicious server.