Phishing
Jul 3rd 2008greenbucksBlogging101 & Digital World & File and data management & Web Tools
Phishing.
No, I didn’t misspell this word for fishing. Phishing in the online community means fraud or something criminally fraudulent or ok then, something fishy.
Phishing is an attempt to get sensitive information from people who go online and need to use user names or logins and of course, passwords. In a worse case scenario, these sites would ask for credit card details.
Most often, phishing will be in the form emails or instant messaging about a PayPal account, eBay product that has been ordered but not been paid for, online banks and even social networking sites.
This directs the recipients of the email to go to certain sites and enter the details that they ask for.
Take for example this site where a friend has invited me to join. I decided to join because I got invites from several friends but have not responded positively. Just a while ago, I went to the site to see what this all about.
Of course I did not push through with the registration. The reason? It was asking for my yahoo mail password.
My what? Yes, my yahoo mail password.
Something fishy really, if you ask me.
