Description: Phishing is a term that's applied to the latest identify theft scam where potential thieves and con men use fake e-mail messages, which look very real sometimes, to con you into giving up credit card, bank and other sensitive financial and personal information. Once you give it up they proceed to clean you out and/or steal your identity and run up thousands of dollars worth of debt in your name.
How to protect yourself from phishing attempts
1. Do not ever reply to any e-mail that asks you for any personal or financial information no matter how official it looks. Banks, credit card companies, brokers, the government and any other legitimate entity will never ask you to click on a link and supply any kind of personal or financial information.
If they include a telephone number for you to call, don't! If you feel that the message is legitimate then look up the actual web site address, or telephone number, from a statement or invoice and use it. Even if the link in the email looks real, it isn't. It's easy to make a link look like it goes to one web site but really have it go to another.
2. Never give any sensitive personal information out to anyone who calls you and asks for it. Simply ask for their name, telephone number and extension and tell them you'll call them back. Then, check that telephone number against a number that you find on a statement or receipt. If it doesn't match, call the number that you found and tell someone what's going on. If it's a real message they'll figure it all out for you. If it's a fraud, they'll tell you.
Tags: phidhing , email , attacks ,
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last 20 minutes is good. good explanation of php code necessary for phishing.
thanx