Phishing : Better Safe than Sorry
Internet, the most sophisticated and sought after tool of the modern era, no doubt made our life a lot easy. From research to sending emails, sharing photo, chat rooms, messenger services, bill payment, shopping, air/railway/bus ticket to social networking, everything is now accomplished by a few clicks here and there. Advent of e-retailing combined with net/mobile payment gateways spared the need to stand in queue at a bank or a merchant establishment. However if one fail to exercise necessary caution, it could lead us to fall into the hands of a class of tricksters called Cyber Criminals who are out there on a mission to poach our personal data and use it to swipe clean ones savings. This article, leaving the complex ones, discusses a very simple yet damaging class of fraudulent attempt called Spoof or Phishing Email which trick us to part with our personal data. Take a look at the email below, reproduced from a real phishing email received a few months ago from an unknown ...