What is Phishing ?
Phishing is an attemp to criminally and fraudulently acquire sensitive information such as username, password and credit card details, by appearing as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication Amazon, Paypal & etc. are common target. Phishing is typically done by emails or instant messaging & often direct user to enter details at a website, phone contacts can also used. Phishing is an example of social engineering techniques used to make fool the users and attempts to deal with growing number of reported, like if some one wants to hack your facebook account password with the help of phishing so first he make the fake page of Facebook which exactly same like facebook & make a php file then upload it to any web hosting websites then send that link to you by email, or by messaging & ask you to enter your username & password u will think that this is a facebook real page & u will enter your user name & password but in real you are not entering your user name password on facebook page but you are entering username & password on hacker's fake Facebook page and your user name & password will be store in txt. file & goes to hacker, so beware from phishing never reply such type of emails, or messages , always check the U.R.L like if your entering facebook user name & password so check the U.R.L (website address) that it should be http://www.facebook.com or not http://www.fecabook.com or anything .
Phishing is an attemp to criminally and fraudulently acquire sensitive information such as username, password and credit card details, by appearing as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication Amazon, Paypal & etc. are common target. Phishing is typically done by emails or instant messaging & often direct user to enter details at a website, phone contacts can also used. Phishing is an example of social engineering techniques used to make fool the users and attempts to deal with growing number of reported, like if some one wants to hack your facebook account password with the help of phishing so first he make the fake page of Facebook which exactly same like facebook & make a php file then upload it to any web hosting websites then send that link to you by email, or by messaging & ask you to enter your username & password u will think that this is a facebook real page & u will enter your user name & password but in real you are not entering your user name password on facebook page but you are entering username & password on hacker's fake Facebook page and your user name & password will be store in txt. file & goes to hacker, so beware from phishing never reply such type of emails, or messages , always check the U.R.L like if your entering facebook user name & password so check the U.R.L (website address) that it should be http://www.facebook.com or not http://www.fecabook.com or anything .
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