Phishing is a form of cybercrime where criminals impersonate legitimate institutions through email, phone calls, or text messages to trick individuals into providing sensitive personal or financial information. The criminals then use this information to access important accounts, potentially leading to identity theft and financial loss. Phishing scams often involve pop-up messages or suspicious emails asking targets to update account information or confirm personal details by visiting fake websites that appear legitimate at first glance but are actually controlled by fraudsters seeking to steal sensitive data.

1. P H I S H I N G

2. WHAT IS PHISHING ?
• Phishing is a cybercrime in which a target or targets are contacted by email, telephone
or text message by someone posing as a legitimate institution to lure individuals into
providing sensitive data such as personally identifiable information, banking and credit
card details, and passwords.
• The information is then used to access important accounts and can result in identity
theft and financial loss.

3. HOW PHISHING HAPPEN

4. STEP CRIME
• The ID hackers use phishing as a scam on Internet to get hold of your valuable
information. You may come across pop up messages or suspicious emails from these
fraudsters. In most of the cases this scam takes place through emails. These mails may
ask you to update information about your personal accounts. Asking for confirmation
of the confidential information, these spam mails will guide you to visit websites, which
appear to belong to legitimate and authorized organization at a glance. But these
websites are actually fake sites, which are operated by fraudsters to take over sensitive
information from you. So be careful not to fall in the tricks set up by the ID thieves and
prevent yourself from getting caught in the phish net.