Phishing is a fraudulent attempt, usually made through email, to illegally get users’ private information such as passwords, credit/debit card info, Social Security number, and the bank account numbers. Phishers falsely claiming them to be a legitimate enterprise in order to get the internet users to disclose their personal information easily. Commonly, it will provides a link that let us click on it and our personal data was stolen once we follow the instruction.
The picture on the above is an example of the phishing e-mail.
There are several steps to take to keep from being a victim of phishing, which are:-
a) Be cautious of email asking for personal information. Before we entering our personal
information, be confirmed that the email is from a legal entity or someone we know.
b) Never enter personal information in a pop-up screen.
c) Protect your computer with spam filters, antivirus and antispyware software, and a firewall.
Download the latest security updates for our web browser and operating system. It's
definitely the simplest to safeguard our personal data and keep us from being the victim.
Install all these useful software before it become too late.
d) Only open email attachments you are expecting and know what they contain. It's better to
ignore an attachment from a stranger rather than put ourselves into a risk by opening the
attachment. Other than that, we should always get ourselves updated with the information
that related to the phishing.
Lastly, a way to check whether it's a phisher is by entering a wrong password. The fake site will first accept it, and then we will be redirected to a page that asks us to log in and check later because the website is having technical problem.
Related links:-
1)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing
2)http://spam-ip.com/images/phishing-example-1.jpg
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