phishing

A very special and dangerous fishing expedition.

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If you are approached, via instant messaging or via email, for any personal information, there's a good chance you're a potential victim of "phishing."

Phishing is the act of casting about on the Internet to try and steal your personal information: names, addresses, social security numbers, usernames and passwords and more. To do so, phishers will create very official looking email messages from banks, ISP's like AOL, PayPal, eBay and others. The phisher's email usually claims that unless you click on a link in the email and log on to the site to correct your information, that your account will be cancelled (or some other dire consequence).

The problem: the link goes not to the actual bank or service site, but to a look-a-like site that simply asks you to sign in - with a fake form that is a direct path to the criminal's data collector. Once you've given up your username and password (and maybe other information on that fake sign-in form), you're thenredirected to the real site, and your information has been successfully "phished."

Do not respond to any email or instant message that asks you to sign in and correct anything. Sites will ask you when you sign in on your own to make account corrections.

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