Tag Archives: Phishing

Ways to identify phishing email

April 7, 2009 – 8:55 am | By Gatt | Posted in Internet | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

Phishing email (or Spoof email or Hoax email) attempts to fake appearance of popular website and businesses for stealing personal information.

Here are ways to identify Phishing email. Read More »

Vishing – Voice Phishing

January 11, 2009 – 11:58 am | By Gatt | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged , | Comments (0)

Vishing is a criminal fraud method of acquiring personal information over the phone by pretending to be a legitimate business such as Bank or Credit Card Company. Read More »

Phishing attack – Using Fake email for identity theft

July 16, 2008 – 2:44 pm | By Gatt | Posted in Internet | Also tagged , | Comments (0)

Phishing is a criminal fraud in which Phisher attempts to steal personal information such as user name, password, bank account number, pin, credit card number etc by pretending to be a trustworthy website. It typically involves sending an email or IM link that appears to be from a trustworthy source such as Bank, Credit Card Company, Paypal, ebay etc and then redirects user to a fake website where user enters personal information. Read More »