What Is Phishing??? I Got Scammed!!!!!

My suggestiong for the future. Even if it looks legit doesn't mean that it is. Most times it would be a scam. One way I have found if things are really are not is having https://.... the "s" meaning secure site. If you are wanting to know more call them and find out. They usually do know the scams that are going on and then if they don't they have become aware of such scam circulating. Phishing - is the act of tricking someone into giving them confidential information or tricking them into doing something that they normally wouldn't do

Phishing is just a fancy new way of spelling fishing, except that it is almost exclusively an internet term. They are phishing for personal information and usually not by companies that are legitamate. Phishing emails are responsible for a lot of identity theft over the last few years, and unfortunately, this problem is on the rise. If you recieve emails that you don't feel are right, then you should just delete them.

You don't need to be worried with a virus from a phishing email. As long as you don't give out any of your information, such as social security number or bank information you're fine. The IRS doesn't ever send emails asking for information, neither does a lot of banks, etc..If you think the email is legitimate log into the site yourself, not through the email link. A lot of people fall scam to phishing emails everyday. I don't know what the exact number is but I'm sure its pretty high.

i actually have not experienced similar to his before. but it is not at all good. they wanted you to follow the link. and then type all the info about you. May be they would have scammed you later.

I think phishing emails are scams that are sent to try and get sensitive personal information from you or your computer. I wouldn't trust any emails that come through like that and if you need to check, to actually type in the address in the address bar and search that way. Don't go through the email.

Phishing should be known as an offence and everyone should learn this term. Trying to steal one's internal or personal details is an offfence and technolgy should be able to find out the people who is doing this and law should be placed to punish such criminals. Also, paypal or any other money paying websites should be having a very strong firewall to prevent this offence. The best way to escape from this PHISHING is typing the home address and then entering our login details. So please dont open any links to websites from an unknown person. This may be related to a online trading website or bank website or finance website. Be very careful when you are trading online or banking online. Start fresh from a new browser and close the browser once you are done. Also, don't browse in a public browsing centres for online banking or online trading, as there are many softwares available in the market to store your username and password. Prevention is better than cure. So act smart by preventing to be caught in a phishing net.