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Phishing-How Not to Get Hooked
Phishing-How Not to Get Hooked
Author: Admin

Phishing is a particularly devious form of Internet scam. Customers of banks and financial institutions are often prime targets for ¡°phishers¡± who trick them into divulging sensitive personal information such as their credit- or debit-card account numbers and personal identification numbers (PINs), by making bogus offers using spoof e-mails and fake Web sites. The technique is also used to steal identities.

One of the reasons phishing is so successful is that the e-mails link the victim to official-looking Web sites where the attackers use images, logos, and text taken from genuine companies¡¯ sites to make the bogus offer appear legitimate.

Phishing is often carried out on a grand scale, targeting hundreds of thousands of consumers at a time¡ªsome attacks involve over a million phishing e-mails. Depending on the scam, response levels can be as low as one percent or as high as 20 percent. With the huge numbers involved, the potential financial rewards can be phenomenal.

There are a few simple steps you can take to avoid getting caught by a phishing scam. The most immediate of these is to check that the Web address (the URL) is the same as the real company¡¯s. If it is not, be suspicious and check further before releasing any personal information.

As standard forms of identity verification are unlikely to change in the short term (e.g., Social Security numbers and mother¡¯s maiden name), it will still be necessary to divulge this kind of information. It would be wise to adopt the following rules for protection:

Businesses can also help to protect their customers by:

Phishing differs from traditional scams primarily in the scale of the fraud that can be committed. Awareness is a major first step in prevention.

Source: www..mcafee.com