Labels:book | daily | hakham | sky OCR: THE WEB AND E-MAIL 405 PHISHING What is phishing? Phishing is an e-mail based scam that's designed to persuade you to reveal confidential information such as your bank account number or Social Security number Unlike pharming attacks (which you'll read about in moment) phishing scams require that you reply to an e-mail message or click an embedded Web site link for the scam to unfold If you've used e-mail fo any length of time, you've probably encountered the granddaddy of all phishing scams letter from Nigerian political refugee who wants to move large sum of money to a bank in your country and needs bank account (yours!) stash it for few days Of course you'll get a a percentage for your trouble Don't even think about it. According to the FBI, several gullible individuals have been lured t ...
