Phishing is the method of sending out fake emails written to appear as if they have been sent by banks or other companies like eBay, with the intent of getting the recipient to reveal sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, account IDs, ATM PINs or credit card details. Typically, phishing attacks will direct the recipient to a web page which will look exactly like the target organization’s webpage and have the same colors and logos. I once got an email which took me to a page that looked like an eBay webpage and asked me for my username and password. I figured it was a fake by looking at the web address on the browser address bar. It did not look anything like an eBay address although they did use the word eBay in the address just to throw people off guard. Be very careful about entering details on a page that is linked from an email. If you want to learn more about Phishing, click on the links below.
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How to Spot A Phishing Scam
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[...] A flaw on the eBay site has allowed hackers to redirect the sign-on process to a phishing site. This means that you could log in from a genuine eBay webpage and then be redirected to fake site which would ask for your information to confirm that you are the genuine account holder or whatever. This is a step up from being directed to a fake website to log into eBay in the first place. So, if you get an email which has a link that takes you to eBay, delete that email. This latest effort makes it even more difficult for the users to detect a phishing attack as the user is being taken to a genuine page and then to the hacker’s website. What other ways will they find to rob us? [...]