Phishing

Definition

Phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire confidential information such as username, passwords and credit card detail by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Phishing is carried out by e-mail or instant messaging which the email request the users to update their personal information. Its' look are almost identical like legitimate but actually it is fake and set up to steal the user’s private information. Normally, phishing will appear in popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT administrators such as PayPal, eBay, MSN, Yahoo, BestBuy, and America Online and so on.

A Few Examples of Phishing

eBay Phishing Example

Ebay/PayPal phishing is very common currently. A scammer will send out thousands or even millions of emails to his list. Once the end user click on the links in the e-mail ,it will link to a web site that designed like ebay. Next, the end user attempts to login his or her username and password to the scammer. Further, the scammer also e-mails to his list and claiming to be eBay or PayPal and request your username and password. The novice user may send those details back to the address and their account is compromised.To prevent this problems, the users do not reply or click any e-mail and links that claimed themselves as Ebay or Paypal.In fact, Ebay or PayPal website will never ask their users for personal information.

Bank Phishing Example

The scammer will send out phishing e-mails to bank users and claims that the recipients account has been suspended and in order to return their account to normal standing they need to verify some information. The users will clicks on the link and submit their information to scammer. Then, the scammer will use the information to operate the victims account.

To prevent the problem, the users do not click or reply any e-mail and link which it is claiming to be from bank. As this is a pretty common occurrence you should be able to just ignore it.

The other fraudulent ways is included the followings:

E-mail

Phone Phishing

Credit Card Phishing

Prevention of Phishing

There are few ways to solve the phishing such as do not reply or accept any unauthorized e-mail or messages. Besides, you can install the anti-virus to block any unauthorized mails. For more details about any software to solve phishing, you can refer to website like wikipedia, google, and so on.

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