COMMON

PHISHING

ATTACKS

Deceptive Phishing

Email messages that claims themselves as

recognized sources and asks for your

personal details, verification code or even to

make a payment.

Scam objective-To trick the user into

providing personal details to access his bank

account.

Spear Phishing

A Sophisticated version in which the sender

uses available information to direct his

request at you.

Scam objective-Directly targets you for

acquiring all your bank details or any other

data.

CEO Fraud

Phishers use an email address similar to

that of an authority to request payments or

data from others within the company or an

organization.

Scam objective- To transfer the money

directly from victim to cybercriminals.

Pharming

Scam in which a hacker hijacks a website’s

domain name and uses it to redirect the

visitors to some other site.

Scam objective-To intercept and steal

online payments

Dropbox Phishing

A Scam that looks real and claims to have

come from a Dropbox requests the user to

click on the link to secure their account

details or to share a downloaded file.

Scam objective-To install malware on

victim’s PC.

To be safe and secure from phishing

attacks follow certain steps:-

Try to check the links from where the mail

has been sent.

Refuse to provide your personal details

Report suspicious emails

Use best antivirus software