Phishing is a type of internet frauds that aim to steal the valuable information of the users such as credit cards, security number and password. It is a fake website that created similar to the original organizations such as bank. An email will send and request the user to access the fake website, and require the user to fill up their personal details and also the security number or password. Once the user fill up their personal details, fake website creator will use the information to steal the user’s money in the bank, ID of the games and so on.
Here are the links that teach you how to prevent the phishing.
http://www.wordspy.com/words/phishing.asp
http://kb.iu.edu/data/arsf.html
Here are the links to teach u how to spot a phishing scam
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2005/phishing.asp
Example of phishing website:
Bank Phishing Example
Ebay Phishing Example
Let’s all work together to prevent phishing scams. If you receive a suspicious e-mail, please report it. You can send it to the US Federal Trade Commission at spam@uce.gov or you can just click the ‘report as junk’ button on your e-mail program. This will help to reduce the phishing scams and provide a more safety environment for users of internet.
Here are the links that teach you how to prevent the phishing.
http://www.wordspy.com/words/phishing.asp
http://kb.iu.edu/data/arsf.html
Here are the links to teach u how to spot a phishing scam
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2005/phishing.asp
Example of phishing website:
Bank Phishing Example
Ebay Phishing Example
Let’s all work together to prevent phishing scams. If you receive a suspicious e-mail, please report it. You can send it to the US Federal Trade Commission at spam@uce.gov or you can just click the ‘report as junk’ button on your e-mail program. This will help to reduce the phishing scams and provide a more safety environment for users of internet.
ok..any suspicious email i receive next time must report it to the particular institution..
with these kinds of fraud, this is why there are people who still does not have confidence with internet banking, and that is why e-commerce is advancing so slow...
A few days back i too got an email saying that bank is proceeding to make our accounts more secure for this purpose I need to verify my email on some odd link provided.I sensed that this is something spam or phishing but was not sure what to do so i just removed this mail from inbox as well as trash