Phishing is the stealing of identity information from users online and has become one of the biggest dangers of unknowingly giving away your personal information.
According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), the number of Phishing incidents is increasing at a rate of 56 percent every month.
Phishing can be done on an unsuspecting victim who receives an email that comes from a respectable business, such as a bank or other types of financial institutions and the email links the victim to a web site where he or she is asked to provide account information. What is scary the site in which you have been directed to looks legitimate and about 10 percent of people who receive these types of emails fall prey to these crooks.
Thousands of computers are compromised each day without the user ever knowing they have unwillingly given up their private and personal information.
Phishing is automated identity theft. Gartner Group estimated in that 1.78 million Americans had already given their information to phishers with a cost to U.S. consumers and industry is 2.4 billion dollars.
It is a good bet that everyone who has an email account has received some level of Phishing. Anytime you have received an email […]

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