Signs of Phising

Phising is a scam which works by impersonating banks or other financial organisations like Paypal or Moneybookers. Most of the time the scammers send you emails which seem to be coming from such online sites. They ask you for your personal details like account number, credit card number or some other identity which can let them get into your account.

Such emails have links which you are asked to click to go the site. Now when you click you are taken to a website which looks genuine but as soon as you submit your personal information, the scammer will use it to access your account and clean it out.

So what to do if you get such emails?
The best way is to ignore them and mark them as spam so that your email client will send it the spam box and will hopefully prevent another such email to get into your inbox. However, the thing to keep in mind is never to click on the links in the emails.

First of all no banking or online payment sites will ask for your information by email Paypal has a clear warning about such email fraud on their websites. This is a sure sign that this site is fraudulent.

However if you do feel that you have to check with the website, type its url in the browser and then check if the security lock icon is shown in the bottom bar of your browser. Also see that such websites have https instead of http in their url which a sign of security of the website.