Phishing: Examples and its prevention methods

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.

Examples and its prevention methods

A user received an email from company like bank that thanking him for winning the auction and asking him to update my credit card info such as account number, his personal detail and so on. At the end of the month, he find out that his card being use by unknown person then he notice that he fallen in to a phishing scam. He had given out his card password, account number and all his personal detail through email. In the light of that, here a few of the way that you should aware so that everyone will not fall for phishing scam.

1. Stay alert and be cautious with the e-mail and on Websites.

Most of the time, successful scams rely on user it self, not on technology. By providing info and plus some technical vulnerabilities, this can help the harker or know as phishers to successful scams.

2.Don’t get scared by the content of the e-mail.

So times things happen when phishers try to get you exited or upset so that you won’t think things through. They will send e-mail that contains urgent requests to know your personal information. User must read it over several times and find out is the e-mail that you received is really from the company.

3. Don’t give out information that they should have.

Mostly, your personal details and financial institution will likely have your detail such as usernames, password, account number, credit card numbers, and so on. So generally the e-mail may not be the e-mail that sends by the company.

Hopefully this information can help all users to be alert from the phishers.

Reference:
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3000_7-6459186-1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing