Phishing

is an e-mail fraud method by sending faked e-mail or instant messages in order to purloin the personal or financial information of recipients. Typically, the e-mail is come from the legitimate or well-known website. The e-mail will require recipients to verify their personal information or account detail such as password, credit card and bank account number or suggest victims to update the services, to badger the users visit their website through the hyperlink provided in the e-mail. The goal of the sender is for victim to disclose personal or account related information.


Following is the EXAMPLE of phishing:

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How to PREVENT Phishing?

1.Install up-to-date antivirus and antispyware software: antispyware software such as PowerShark can effectively detect and respond to the phishing attack.
2.Block the phishing e-mails by various spam filters: Phishing Filter can helps protect individual from Web fraud and the risks of personal data theft by warning or blocking phishing Web sites
3.Detect phishing in time: users can try to detect phishing by reading the information and characteristics of phishing
4.Enhance the security of the website: nowadays, many companies have taken some anti phishing methods in order to prevent and stop the process such as secret question, special images as well as biometric characteristic