What is Phishing?Phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
How the phishing works?Usually it is thought the e-mail and instant messaging to gather personal and financial information from recipients. Perpetrators will use fake website they have created instead of legitimate one to steal the information from people, the fraudulent email address that they have sent usually redirect to the perpetrator website which is fake so that it looks similar to the original website.
The following is an example of what a phishing scam e-mail message might look like:
PayPal is one of the many examples that perpetrator has tried to impersonate. PayPal phishing attempt can be notice by the spelling mistakes in the e-mail and IP address in the link which is the visible in the tooltip under yellow box. Another clue is lack of personal greeting, even though the company personal details would not be security of legality. Other signs are misspellings of simple words and threat of consequences such as account suspension if recipient fails to fulfill the message requests.
How to prevent?
Here are some related links that will teach you how to prevent the phishing.
1. www.paypal.com/fightphishing
2. www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/phishing/identify.mspx
Here are some tips that can help you to prevent from the phishing.
1. Detect and block the phishing Web sites in time
2. Enhance the security of the web sites
3. Block the phishing e-mails by various spam filters
4. Install online anti-phishing software in user’s computers
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