With credit tightening and all the talk about a financial crisis, it is especially important that we all remain vigilant and not fall for any phishing scams. What is phishing?
"The act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft. The e-mail directs the user to visit a web site where they are asked to update personal information, such as passwords and credit card, social security, and bank account numbers, that the legitimate organization already has. The Web site, however, is bogus and set up only to steal the user’s information."
The above definition is from http://www.webopedia.com.
No comments:
Post a Comment