What is "phishing"?

What is "phishing"?

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Phishing is a practice that's become very popular lately. Phising is where the hacker or the thief sends an email posing as a legitimate firm that you might legitimately do business with. Most popular are eBay, Pay Pal, and banks. In this email it will explain something to the effect that you have to update your account or update your information, and typically it will ask you to click on a link. That will take you to a page that looks exactly like the place the email is from and it is going to ask you to input some sensitive information, login, account number, and password etc. The only problem is that it's not the bank, it's not the service, it's not the organization it claims to be, and they're simply capturing that information from you.