December 3, 2007
Securing yourself from phishing attacks.
Phishing appears to be an official message from a company you may have financial or other interests with and ask for your personal information such as social security number, account number or password. Phishing has become such a low-cost and low-effort activity, because of its ease of implementation on the spammers behalf. Phishing e-mails are also becoming more personalized, making them more believable to their victims. Phishing is a rapidly growing class of identity theft scams on the internet that causes both short-term and long-term economic damage, faced by millions of people every day.