Friday, June 11, 2010

PHISHING

PHISHING is a criminal and cyber method of acquiring confidential, important and critical information related to financial transactions, such as passwords, credit and debit cards etc. Phishing is a term derived from "fishing". The targets which are common are online shopping sites, online banking portals.The most common technique is to urge unsuspecting users to send such sensitive information through emails, clone replication of reputed websites. Such data is then used to withdraw money from your account.

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