What is phising?

Posted by Stefen | 8:13 PM | | 0 comments »

Beware of phising sites! I’m sure that everyone knows fishing what is, phising is like fishing.In internet, phising is a scam attempt to acquire user’s crucial information such as username, password and credit card numbers. Those who do phising are called Phiser.

Phiser try to fool their victims by sending manipulated email, fake websites and etc. They made those manipulated websites, e-mails which are almost similar with the real ones that the targeted person would fall for it. Usually they pretend to be trusted websites, famous online shop and etc.

Case that happened years ago In Indonesia:

www.klikbca.com is website of BCA, It is an Indonesia bank which is well-known for its online banking services in the whole nation. The Phiser try to catch their victims who made a simple mistake in typing.

Common typo mistake in browsing internet:
www.klikbca.com
www.kilkbca.com

If a user log in with their password and username, those data would be submit to phiser and then you can imagine what would happen to that poor victim. Fortunately, now we have Phising Filter in IE7 (Internet Explorer 7). If you don’t have IE7 you might want to download WebSecurityGuardSetup from crawler which is integrated with spyware terminator (free ware). It will notice you If they found out the sites that you visiting are suspicious.

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Below are sample of phising mail:

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