Wednesday, February 29, 2012

What is the difference between phishing and farming?

In regards to computingWhat is the difference between phishing and farming?
Phishing is trying to get a persons information, usually by tricking them somehow. Most often, an email will try to get you to go to a fake site and 'login', or tell you you need to 'verify' an account or something by sending them a password or account number or somesuch.

Common example:

"We have detected fraud on your bank account, go %26lt;here%26gt; to login and confirm or deny fraudulent charges." %26lt;here%26gt; of course may _say_ yourbank.com, but actually goes to someplace like gimme.your.bank.account.com



Farming is usually related to gaming. In a game, it means you do the same thing over and over again, usually in the same place, making a little bit of game 'cash' each time until you save up a large amount. In some cases, farmers will then sell whatever game cash they made to another gamer for real cash.

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