phishing:examples n its prevention methods

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.