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Phishing: What is it and how to prevent it? 'Phishing' messages have grown increasingly common online. Phishing is a scam technique used to solicit user's credit card information, social security numbers, and other vital data. "Phishing messages usually take the form of fake notifications from banks, providers, e-pay systems and other organizations. The notification will try to encourage a recipient, for one reason or another, to urgently enter/update their personal data. Such excuses usually relate to loss of data, system breakdown, etc." (What is phishing, 2012, Secure List). These messages may be sent in a general fashion or to a target base of users. It is not unusual to get a phishing message from, say, Bank of America, even though the recipient has no Bank of America account. The hope is that users who do use BoA will mistake the message for a real notification, open the email, and follow the instructions. Scare techniques prompt the user to enter their data: "if you do not provide your personal...

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"Some phishing emails will deliberately misspell key words to bypass SPAM filters, which most people would not recognize when quickly glancing at the subject line" (Phishing email scams, 2012, Fraud Watch International).
Phishers often use photoshopping or other forms of technology to make their correspondence look 'official,' which can catch casual readers off-guard. While the wording and the visuals may be questionable, this may go unnoticed on a first glance. But "the 'quality' of phishing messages is usually very high. A fake site will generally look exactly like the original so that a user will not suspect anything is wrong when they enter their user name and password to access the site" (What is phishing, 2012, Secure List). The fact that 'multitasking' is so common when users are online also is conducive to phishing, as a user may not think twice about why the bank he or she patronized…

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How to protect yourself against phishing. . (2012). Fraud Watch International. Retrieved:

http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/phishing-fraud/phishing-protection/

Phishing email scams. (2012). Fraud Watch International. Retrieved:

www.fraudwatchinternational.com/phishing-fraud/phishing-email-methods/
http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/phishing-fraud/phishing-web-site-methods/
http://www.securelist.com/en/threats/spam?chapter=85
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