Phishing For Your Identity

 Who did not receive an email to visit the familiar website to update their personal information? The site needs your passwords, credit card numbers, social security number or even your bank account number to be verified or updated. You know the business name as one with which you have been active in the past. You therefore click on the easy link "take me there" and start to submit the information you have asked. Sadly, you will find out much later that the website is flawed. It was built solely to steal your personal data. You were just "phished," my friend.

Phishing is defined as the act of sending an email to a receiver who claims falsely that he has a real business. The aim of the fishing company is to deceive the beneficiary into giving up their private information and ultimately robbing your identity.

It is not easy to find an email phishing for information. Email may look like it is from a real organization at first glance. The "From" field of the e-mail may have the company's.com address indicated in the e-mail. The clickable link seems to bring you to the website of the company, if it is indeed a false website constructed to imitate the legitimate one.

Many of these individuals are professional crooks. You spent a lot of effort writing authentic emails. Users must carefully scrutinize any emails that solicit personal information. When checking your email, remember that the sender can change the "From Field." While it might look like it comes from a.com with which you conduct business, it looks tricky. Please also remember that the photographer will try to make your email look as real as possible. They will even copy logos or photos to be used in their e-mails from the official website. Finally, they want to incorporate a clickable link to update their information conveniently.

One wonderful approach to check the validity of the link is to point your mouse to the link. Then glance at your computer's bottom left hand screen. You can see the exact website address to which you are addressed. It is a very fast and easy technique to check whether you are going to a legitimate site.

Finally, follow the law of gold. Never ever click the links in the email text and always immediately delete the email. Once the email has been removed, also empty the trash box of your email accounts. If you are really concerned that a crucial message concerning one of your account is missing, then type in your browser the complete URL of the website. 

At least you can be sure that you are actually on the true and legitimate website.