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Phishing is a broadly launched social engineering attack in which an electronic identity is misrepresented in an attempt to trick individuals into revealing credentials. In addition, Phishing is a type of deception designed to steal your valuable personal data, such as credit card numbers, email ID, others account data and passwords, or other information.

We might see phishing scam :
In email messages
On your social social networking Website such as Facebook
On a fake website that accepts donations for charity
On websites that spoof your familiar sites using slightly different Web addresses
On instant messaging program such as MSN or Yahoo Messenger
On cell phone or other mobile service

Here are example of Phishing:

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The pictures above show the different example of how phishing email try to steal information of the users.

From the information above, we know that phishing can be everywhere and it just near to you and me. So that, its very important for us to prevent phishing. Otherwise, our information will be STEAL by others.

Here are some of the ways to prevent Phishing:
(1) Keep your email and instant message addresses private
The best way to keep yourself from being tempted to respond to phishing is to prevent them to get your email box. You can try to separate email addresses ,one for financial institution, one for family and friends, and one for public use. Nowadays, many email provider will allow us to redirect the different email addresses into one account so that it can be easier for checking the email. Please remember to keep your financial transaction as private as possible.

(2) Immediately report suspected phishing contacts
You can call the customer service phone number immediately to confirm whether you have receive an actual messages or not when you do receive message you suspect to be phishing scam. In addition, you can report suspicious emails to almost every bank and credit card lender.

(3) Check who the email is from
Just check the sender of the email. A phishing scam may have email addresses that is not the domain of the legitimate bank/service. Also be aware of banks or any financial institutions asking for verify your account information. We suggest simple just delete the email like this.

(4) Do not follow a “Click Here” link in the email
“Click Here to re-enter your user information” is usually link that leads to an illegitimate website in phishing emails. You may be able to determine the link is real or not by looking at the link. Do not just focus on the domain name, take a look at the slashes that follow. Furthermore, the connection should be encrypted – the link should start with https:// and not http:// .