Without getting in to a legal debate since I'm not in any respects a lawyer, how on earth is giving random information to a random webpage on the internet illegal? Does that mean everytime you sign up for one of those ridiculous "phpbb" scripts and you aren't 100% truthful, you're breaking the law? I could see how falsifying information to legal entity, such as the government or an actual bank you're trying to sign a contract with would be illegal, but I don't see phishers falling in to that category.