What is phishing?
Phishing is a method thieves and con men used to get personal information from you in order to steal your identity and then your money or benefits.Typically, you receive an email from a bank asking you to go to its site to reenter your most personal information. The link takes you to a bogus website!
For example, the Amazon.com.The website that the link leads to is a spoof; a fake website, not created by Amazon.com. It goes to http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/cfrwarning.php?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fcitdsl.fix.netvision.net.il/login.html, not Amazon.com! When you enter the information they ask for, you will simply be handing the thieves the keys to your bank accounts. That is how spoofing and phishing works.
Remember, no reputable business would send you an email requesting your personal account information. Any such email you receive asking for this information should be considered phony and brought to the attention of the business being 'phished'.
How You Can Prevent Phishing Scams
Let’s all work together to prevent phishing scams. If you receive a suspicious email, report it. You can send it to the US Federal Trade Commission at spam@uce.gov or you can just click the “Report as Junk” (or similar) button on your email program.
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