Phishing
refers to 'fishing' out sensitive information such as banking details
by pretending as a trustworthy entity. Usually the attacks will be in the
form of an e-mail that appears to be from the bank. These randomly generated
e-mails contain clickable links that guides you to a scamsters log on page
which will be a page designed to capture your details. Different techniques
will be employed by the scamsters to make you click on the links and enter
the user id and passwords.
Scamsters then use this information
to siphon off funds or, undertake transactions that are billed to the
original customer.
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