Phishing: Examples and its prevention methods

Phishing is a fraudulent attempt, usually made through email and often directs users to enter details at a website, to steal your personal information. Such as, usernames, passwords, account number and credit card details. The word “phishing” is play on the word “fishing”, because the sender is fishing for your private account information. Typically, the sender will try to trick you into providing your user name and password so they can access to your personal account. Once they gain access, they can use your personal information to commit identify theft, change your credit card, empty your bank accounts and others.
Usually the sender will trick you by a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. The common targets are eBay, Amazon.com and others. One example would be if you received an e-mail that appears to be from your bank, and it will request you click a hyperlink in the e-mail and verify your online banking information. After you finished doing the request, it will appear a message that stated in the e-mail for not following the link. When you realized the e-mail is a trap, you already lost all you things in that account and it is too late for you to cry.

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Besides that, an example of PayPal phish shows that the spelling mistakes in the e-mail, lack of personal greeting, misspelling of simple words and the threat of consequences are those important clues to show the e-mail is phishing attempt. Nowadays, phishing is become seriously in the internet networks. Thus, we need find some prevention methods to solve this problem and reduce the number of people that got stuck by those phishing attempts.
There are several different methods to prevent against phishing. One of the methods is to train people to recognize those common phishing attempts. Besides that, we can prevent it by specialized spam filters. Those spam filters can reduce the number of phishing attempts that reach to addressees’ inboxes. Another method could be getting some anti-phish software from the internet because the software can detect the phishing attempt if you open it.
Phishing is an illegal activity from the internet. Thus, we need to prevent it since today. (361 words)