Phishing Scams
Phishing Scams
The electronic world is embracing consumers and criminals. According to Report on Phishing by Binational Working Group on Cross-Border Mass Marketing Fraud, when internet users receive emails from trusted web sites such as famous financial institution, these emails redirect internet users to phony web sites that appear similarly to famous banks web sites. In addition, many customers are receiving phone calls from person who claims that he is working with famous financial institution asking them to provide him with their personal information; in fact this person has no relation to any organization. His purpose is to obtain specific key information that helping him to access people bank accounts or to enter inside their personal computers. What is phishing scams? The word phishing is a terminology that is created by internet criminals of emails and websites. It looks like it is coming from trusted organization, financial institution or government agencies in purpose to obtain internet users information. Internet scammers are trying to swindle their victims by obtaining their financial information or other information such a passwords and users names. Moreover, internet scammers are using different ways to gather information from their victims by downloading computer code in their victims’ computers that can provide the criminals to access the target computers to gain sensitive information (4). What is the scope of phishing scams in the United States of America? There are no specific statistics on the number of people who have been fraud through phishing scams, or total of the loss in dollar. There are indications that phishing scams are increasing rapidly over the last two years and has become an important issue in North America and the world (5). How phishing scams is committed? Internet criminals who want to gather information from their victims needs to create phony web site of real institution, and professional
The electronic world is embracing consumers and criminals. According to Report on Phishing by Binational Working Group on Cross-Border Mass Marketing Fraud, when internet users receive emails from trusted web sites such as famous financial institution, these emails redirect internet users to phony web sites that appear similarly to famous banks web sites. In addition, many customers are receiving phone calls from person who claims that he is working with famous financial institution asking them to provide him with their personal information; in fact this person has no relation to any organization. His purpose is to obtain specific key information that helping him to access people bank accounts or to enter inside their personal computers. What is phishing scams? The word phishing is a terminology that is created by internet criminals of emails and websites. It looks like it is coming from trusted organization, financial institution or government agencies in purpose to obtain internet users information. Internet scammers are trying to swindle their victims by obtaining their financial information or other information such a passwords and users names. Moreover, internet scammers are using different ways to gather information from their victims by downloading computer code in their victims’ computers that can provide the criminals to access the target computers to gain sensitive information (4). What is the scope of phishing scams in the United States of America? There are no specific statistics on the number of people who have been fraud through phishing scams, or total of the loss in dollar. There are indications that phishing scams are increasing rapidly over the last two years and has become an important issue in North America and the world (5). How phishing scams is committed? Internet criminals who want to gather information from their victims needs to create phony web site of real institution, and professional
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