Types of Phishing: Phishing Attempt Examples E-mail from Hancock
Bank Advanced e-Fraud Protection Recipients are then asked to
"confirm" valuable and sensitive personal information—such as
Social Security and credit card numbers, passwords and account
user names—by clicking on a link that really takes them to a
fake website set up by the thieves to capture this information.
Once they have the personal information, thieves can use it to
set up new accounts and make unauthorized purchases in their
victims' names. Phishing has become such a huge problem because
identity thieves have become very skilled at creating authentic-
looking fake e-mails, complete with the logos of well-recognized
banks, credit card issuers and online retailers. Phishing scams
cost the average victim $395 per incident, according to the 2005
Consumer Reports State of the Net survey, and total losses last
year due to phishing reached $929 billion, reports The Gartner
Group. The good news with regard to phishing is that it has
gotten a lot o