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PHISHING
Phishing is an attempt of obtaining information from a user which is meant to be kept secret or can be used at proper place. phishing results in loosing user from his/her account details to credit card number and in some weired cases even identity theft.
The Modules Operandi➔ A e-mail saying we need some details & supposedly
seems to be genuine.➔ e-mail like you have won a million Rs lottery fill the
form & collect your money.➔ Fake mail page where you will login & result in
loosing your password.
some screen-shots:-i have taken these shots from a spam that i received today. It is a phishing site of the HDFC bank.
see if you find any difference in the pages
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two
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Points to notice:--if we open and match the real page of HDFC we will find everything similar except the ADDRESS BAR which i have encircled.It is also VeriSign Secured.
the original page of HDFC.
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well we can clearly see how easy it is to forge or create a fake page with same content.
-----Protection--- we can protect ourself if we are careful enough before doing any financial transaction and making sure the page we are filling our details are the true one.
--software---Yes we do have one from netcraft.i have not tried it because i keep my eyes open & believe in myself rather than the softwares.
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