What is Phishing?
What is Phishing?
by Eck
Phishing is the act of gaining information such as passwords, credit card details, and other sensitive information by pretending to be a trustworthy company/business.
Commonly Phishers use email and sometimes instant messaging, whilst masquerading as, for example; Paypal, Ebay or a well known bank. A common trick is to apparently link to a legimate site, while actually re-directing you to an identical looking fake site, where you will be asked to give information such as your banking details/username/password etc.
Note, that by using Javascript for instance, the Phisher can even make it appear that you are on the real site by placing a false address in your address bar. More in-depth methods include cross-site scripting, where the Phisher makes use of holes in a legitimate website’s scripts to gain information from you.
It can become very in-depth, (more than someone with my basic computing knowledge can explain.)
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Rapidshare Phishing:
On adult forums the main threat is from Phishers who want to get hold of the accounts of Rapidshare premium members. Non premium members are also a major target as the false Rapidshare website will contain a link for opening a premium account. Obviously entering your credit card/paypal details into this false website will lose you money….
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