Are you Phishing?
You can say that the internet is short cut for “international networking.” By just logging on, you can connect to people all over the world. They may be people you personally know or people you just know online. Whatever the case, there is always somebody on the other end of your internet connection.
As accessible and easy daily life is now thanks to the internet, there are disadvantages from this convenience. Criminal activities such as eliciting sexual activities on the web is an example of online problems society has to deal with.
Another online criminal activity is phishing. Phishing is acquiring personal information like passwords and credit card details by pretending to be a representative of a company. Phishing is done through email or instant messaging.
It is called ‘phishing’ because it similar to the recreational activity fishing. It ‘fishes’ for users’ personal information such as passwords and financial data.
Phishers create accounts on AOL by using fake algorithmically generated credit card numbers. These accounts are maintained for a number of months. Due to the reports of phishing incidences, AOL has brought in measures preventing this from happening by securing the data of their users
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