Can anyone explain to me what is phishing?

Phishing is a form of spam, except that it is designed to extract information from you, such as:



your email and snail mail address

passwords to sites you are a member of

credit card information

bank account information



In other words, these emails "fish" for information. They are often disguised to look like legitimate emails from sites you are a member of. If you have a Citibank account, a PayPal account, an eBay account, and so forth, you may receive an email that LOOKS just like it came from the site. But they are fakes.



NEVER give out your passwords or bank information by clicking on any link in an email that asks for such information. None of the "real" and legitimate sites will ever ask for such information through an email with a link in it. Don't even click on the links! If in doubt, all sites will usually have a "report spam/phishing" email contact, and you can always forward a suspicious email to them for verification. Hope that helps!Can anyone explain to me what is phishing?
Comes from the analogy that internet scammers are using email bait to fish for passwords and financial data from the sea of internet users. Since hackers have a tendancy of replacing "f" with "ph", the term phishing was derived. The term has evolved over the years to include not only obtaining user account details but access to all personal and financial data.
"In order to verify your Yahoo! Answer question, you will need to provide me with your account name and password." - exampleCan anyone explain to me what is phishing?
Phishing is the practice whereby a fraudster pretends to be from a legitimate organisation, and sends misleading emails requesting personal and financial details from unsuspecting people. See source for details.
The act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft.Can anyone explain to me what is phishing?
I know it has to do something with scamers on the internet. Why cant they think of something better to do.
Phishing is the act of attempting to acquire personal information from people by false pretenses.



For example if I called you on your phone and said I was a represensitive from your bank and wanted to verify your account informaion and asked you what is the account number currently on your checks.



Phishing can be in the form of a phone call, email, IM or even just someone that questions you in a Mall under the pretense of being a Marketing Surveyor.



Most commonly it is used to describe people that attempt to get personal information from you on the internet.
WHen you're dancing at a Phish concert. To bad they broke up.
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Internet Phishing is when scammers try to lure e-mail users into clicking on links to try and steal personal and private information that causes identity theft. Most

e-mails CLAIM to be from legitimate companies, but really AREN'T. It's a scammers way of hurting respected companies while destroying reputations in the process. NEVER click on any e-mails that you don't personally know yourself, like what company sent it, or who it may have come from unless you REALLY know it was sent to you. Also keep in mind to NEVER click on links, because then that signals to scammers that your e-mail address is indeed active.