Do you feel fishy about some of the E-mails that you receive? Well if you have received an E-mail from Internal Revenue Service or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, then chances are there that it was a phishing attempt. If you received E-mail from your banks, PayPal, or Facebook that urge you to verify the information immediately or there is a risk having your account being suspended, then it is undoubtedly phishing.
Phishing is an attempt, which is usually done via E-mail, to trick people to reveal their sensitive information like usernames, passwords, and credit card data by pretending itself to be a bank or some other legitimate entity. These E-mails include a link to a Web site that appears to be legal and it prompts users to provide information.
Sometimes, these phishing E-mail also include some form of attachments which need to fill out. One common phishers tactics is to pretend to be from some fraud department of a financial institution or online retailer like PayPal. It asks for information to prevent identity fraud. Sometimes it also asks for bank account information pretending that the person has won some kind of a lottery.
To report about all these phishing Emails you can send it to any anti-phishing site.
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