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No Phishing Allowed

Phishing is a new type of internet scam where criminals try to steal people's personal information like credit card numbers, usernames, passwords, and government IDs. Phishers send fake emails pretending to be from banks or online stores to lure people into revealing this information on false websites that look official. Even though phishers only trick about 5% of people they contact, with billions of scam emails sent each year and hundreds of millions of internet users, it allows them to make a lot of money. Phishing has attracted organized criminal groups who have stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars. To protect themselves, people need to be wary of urgent emails requesting private financial details and check that messages address them by name.

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No Phishing Allowed

Phishing is a new type of internet scam where criminals try to steal people's personal information like credit card numbers, usernames, passwords, and government IDs. Phishers send fake emails pretending to be from banks or online stores to lure people into revealing this information on false websites that look official. Even though phishers only trick about 5% of people they contact, with billions of scam emails sent each year and hundreds of millions of internet users, it allows them to make a lot of money. Phishing has attracted organized criminal groups who have stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars. To protect themselves, people need to be wary of urgent emails requesting private financial details and check that messages address them by name.

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No Phishing Allowed

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Nowadays, most people realize that it’s card numbers online. However, from time to time, we all
use passwords and government ID numbers on the Internet. risky to use credit
We think we are safe, but that may not be true! A new kind of attack is being used by dishonest
people to steal IDs and credit
card numbers from innocent websurfers. This new kind of attack is called “phishing.” Phishing
sounds the same as the word “fishing,” and it implies that a thief is trying to lure people into giving
away valuable information. Like real fishermen, phishers use bait in the form of great online deals
or services. For example, phishers might use fake emails and false websites to con people into
revealing credit card numbers, account usernames, and passwords. They imitate well-known banks,
online sellers, and credit card companies. Successful phishers may convince as many as five percent
of the people they contact to respond and give away their personal financial information.
Is this really a big problem? Actually, tricking five percent of the online population is huge!
Currently, more than 350 million people have access to the Internet, and seventy-five percent of
those Internet users live in the wealthiest countries on Earth. It has been estimated that phishers
send more than three billion scam messages each year. Even by tricking only five percent of the
people, phishers can make a lot of money.
Since there is so much money to make through this kind of scam, it has caught the interest of
more than just small-time crooks. Recently, police tracked down members of an organized phishing
group in Eastern Europe, who had stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars from people online. The
group created official-looking email messages requesting people to update their personal
information at an international bank’s website. However, the link to the bank in the message
actually sent people to the phishers’ fake website. To make matters worse, further investigation
revealed that this
group had connections to a major crime gang in Russia.
How can innocent people protect themselves? Above all, they have to learn to recognize email
that has been sent by a phisher. Always be wary of any email with urgent requests for personal
financial information. Phishers typically write upsetting or exciting, but fake, statements in their
emails so that people will reply right away. Also, messages from phishers will not address
recipients by name because they really don’t know who the recipients are yet. On the other hand,
valid messages from your bank or other companies you normally deal with will typically include
your name.

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