Mainly what is the best way to avoid having your passowrd stolen and your accounts broken into? And secondly what are phishers really looking for and who are they?
2007-03-25 19:35:20 · 3 answers · asked by Rock N' Roll Junkie 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
if you want my advice, just don't respond to any emails you don't know who they're from. And don't click on anything in them either.
2007-03-25 19:40:56 · answer #1 · answered by Steven B 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Phishing is basically social engineering: they lie to you to get you to divulge your information. In case of phish spam, they pretend to be a legit e-mail from your bank, Paypal, eBay, and such, and they want you to login and "resolve a problem or your ATM card will be frozen". If you click on the link, you'd be taken to a website that looks very legitimate (as they stole the real site's design and pictures), and ask you to login. And if you did, you just gave away your account and password, and essentially, access to your entire account.
Usually they are after you for money, which is why most phishing are after banking info. Though it's also possible that your account could be used for shill bids on eBay, putting up fake payments through PayPal, and other nasty endeavours.
2007-03-26 02:42:21 · answer #2 · answered by Kasey C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Phishers rely on social engineering techniques to get their victims information and passwords social engineering is the art of conning People into beliving your a trust worthy source when your not.
If someone sends you an e-mail for example claiming to
be a higher up offical of yahoo security and says I need to verify your password your credit card number and your
personal address please send it to me asp there's been a breach in the server and we need it right away this is an emergency.
Alot of stupid people who don't think will actually send it :(
2007-03-26 10:32:08 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋