Posted by admin in IT Security
on Feb 13th, 2009 | 0 comments
Phishing is the use of fake email and websites to trick a user into supplying confidential or personal information. These emails appear to be from a reputable organisation and would have a link to a replica website for that organisation. Any details entered (bank account details for instance) into such a website are stolen by those who created the website.
No institution will ever send an email requesting login details. In the unlikely event that you do receive an email from a financial institution requesting such details, contact them directly via your statement contact details (not the ones in the...