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Phishing

Phishing is a type of identity theft where scammers impersonate legitimate businesses to steal sensitive personal information. Various forms of phishing include spear phishing, whale phishing, deceptive phishing, pharming, and Dropbox phishing, each targeting individuals or organizations in different ways. Prevention methods include using browser security features, multi-factor authentication, and effective spam filters.

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Phishing

Phishing is a type of identity theft where scammers impersonate legitimate businesses to steal sensitive personal information. Various forms of phishing include spear phishing, whale phishing, deceptive phishing, pharming, and Dropbox phishing, each targeting individuals or organizations in different ways. Prevention methods include using browser security features, multi-factor authentication, and effective spam filters.

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PHISHING

• Phishing is a form of identity theft in which a scammer uses an authentic-looking


email from a legitimate business to trick recipients into giving out sensitive personal
information, such as a credit card, bank account, Social Security numbers or other
sensitive personal information.
Spear Phishing - Spear phishing is one of the common types of phishing attacks that
are done by sending an email to a particular targeted individual.

Whale Phishing - It is a form of phishing attack that is used to achieve big targets.
Whale phishing is a technique to trick organizations and companies for stealing their
confidential data.

Deceptive Phishing - Nowadays, it is one of the most common types of phishing


attacks. Deceptive phishing emails involves threatening messages to scare users by
creating urgency.

Pharming - It is a type of Phishing attack that hackers use to steal sensitive or


personal information from the users on the internet.
• Dropbox Phishing - Some phishers do not use ‘baiting’ to deceive their targets.
Instead, they send attack emails to individuals or companies.

How to Prevent Phishing


• Lock down your browser with pop-up and phishing blockers
• Use multi-factor authentication where possible.
• Configure your email providers spam filter for maximum effectiveness.

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