December 15, 2008 – 1:32 am
Phishing is a type of deception on the internet designed to steal your valuable personal data, such as credit card numbers, passwords, and account data.
Phishing as a type of online scam has been around for a few years. Unfortunately, the scammers have continued to get more sophisticated, making it tougher to determine when an email is real and when it is a phishing attempt.
Several clients have received email messages with subjects like "Please, renew your domain" and "Inaccurate whois information" or even the urgent sounding "Your domains will be deleted soon" that appear to be from Network Solutions or some other well known domain registrar. The From Address looks valid, the email appears to have a legitimate request, and the link in it appears to go directly to www.networksolutions.com.
Don't be fooled!
In a phishing email, the scammer can easily use HTML to make a link appear to be valid when the ...
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