Online Security and Safety Evangelist to McAfee Robert is an
identity theft expert who is committed to ... Phishing occurs
when scammers send emails that appear to have been sent by
legitimate, trusted organizations in order to lure recipients
into clicking links and entering login data and other
credentials. SMiShing is a version of phishing in which scammers
send text messages rather than emails, which, as with phishing
emails, appear to have been sent by a legitimate, trusted
organization. The terms reference a scammers’ strategy of
fishing for personal information. For instance, you could
receive an email or text message from someone posing as your
credit card company, asking you to confirm your account numbers
or passwords. It’s much easier to fall for these tricks on your
mobile device because a lot of the things you can do to check if
an email is legitimate are not available. For instance, because
of the limited screen space on your mobile device, you probably
can’t see a site’s full web address, or an