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Article #257: Awareness To Phishing Is Your Best Weapon

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Of the many techniques to leach away have a very close copy of the original
value from web e-consumers and e-commerce domain. If the URL doesn't start with a
in general, PHISHING is the worst and valid domain then don't go any further.
easiest to implement, all it takes is a Make sure to set your browser to detect
web page look-a-like and an ip packet phishing site by turning on automatic
sniffer to gather email addresses. It's website checking. (Note; In Internet
so easy in fact that it is wildly used Explorer this setting is under Tools
and has reached epidemic proportions. The Internet Option/Advanced tab/Phishing
most targeted sites are banks, ecommerce Filter this will not catch all of them)
sites like ebay and payment services like If you're not familiar with URL's and
paypal. Generally phishers send email to IP's to distinguish them then always
target victims prompting them to login access these sites from a new browser
into fake look-a-like forms that look window or from a trusted bookmark or
legitimate but are designed to capture link.
your credentials. Logging into these If you realize that your email is a
forms will divulge your user and password phishing email then report the fake buy
information and put it in the hands of forwarding it to the sites email address
those who will exploit your account. designated for this. For eBay this email
It's incredibly difficult to detect is and paypal it's check your ecommerce
fraudulent emails - as phishers have site most of these have an account set up
become increasingly sophisticated in enabling you to communicate this
their attacks creating logging pages that information to the web master.
look very authentic and are very cleaver If you feel like retaliation might be in
in prompting you to login. One thing order then goto PhishFighing's web site.
these phishers can't do is install these PhishFighting is an ingenious site that
pages on the targeted sites domain. So turns things around on the fraudster. The
there are certain characteristics in the site was setup to flood phishering sites
URL the Internet users should look for, with fake information, both usernames and
that are common to many spoof emails and passwords. When you receive your next
give them away very easily. spoof email simply visit the site and
In order to protect your self you must be enter the web address of the phishering
very vigilant when following links from site into Every twenty seconds, a fake
email. The URL in the address bar should entry is submitted to the site making any
be a dead giveaway so always make sure genuine details of victims hidden between
your address bar is visible and always the hundreds of fake entries
have a good hard look to see if the url Beinging aware is the most important step
is leading to the site's domain in against phishers and sharing these tips
question and not to some weird ip address will go a long way to eliminate this
or a fake domain. Be very vigilant here practice and help buildup buyer's
and look at the domain spelling they may confidence online.






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