Tips to avoid phishing or pharming scams

Now people are familiar with the name e-mail, from children to adults already know what it is called e-mail. e-mail can also make us lose what we have, in this case usually is money, Poker Chip, and others. On this occasion we will discuss issues related to e-mail. Issues that will be discussed is about E-mail Phishing.


Previously we have to understand whether it is called a phishing e-mail it? is a play on the English word which means fishing. In a world of hyper-connected electronically today, the term phishing commonly defined as a way to lure someone to a specific page. Phishing is not infrequently used by criminals on the Internet to lure someone to go to the web address via e-mail, one goal is to break down the very personal information from the recipient, such as passwords, credit cards, etc.

Among them by sending information that seemed to come from the recipient's e-mail to get a message from a website, and then invited him to go to a fake site. Fake site created in such a way that looks similar to the original site. then when the victim entering your password so that's when these criminals know the victim's password. The use of these fake sites also called pharming.

Usually this is a target for criminals, people who transact online via the bank's website, the players who have achip poker game quite a lot. By the way they create fake e-mails are very very similar to the official e-mail from an official institution. Usually the contents of e-mail messages are very convincing fake at all, because it is very similar to the official e-mail. So people who do not know for sure will visit it, and began to fill in the form and information about personal data and finances. Then the information that has been written is already starting to get into the database of criminals or hackers, thus criminals with very freely move the data or important in it, or take over the account.

To avoid fraud against e-mail phishing or pharming, we must understand a few tips so that we are not fooled. Here are some tips:

Do not immediately reply to an e-mail from sources you do not know.

Note typos or grammatical less precise on e-mail messages that have been sent, attention to the @ symbol in the website address listed in the e-mail message. It could be the website address reads: www.blabla.com@www.hackersite.com. The browser will not process all the posts before the "@" symbol. So, the thief could have put a personal website address after the "@" symbol. The website is exactly what you will visit, for it should always look at the website address listed on the link.

Usually a few characters in the address of the bank's website can be replaced with similar characteristics. For example, the letter L is replaced with the number "1". These characters look the same at first glance. Website www.paypal.com may be converted into paypa1.com and you may not be aware of this difference.

When the bank's website is displayed, note the padlock icon at the bottom of the browser berda Website. If there is, it means that the website is secure. If the padlock icon is not there, immediately close the browser.

Never fill out your password or personal ID in any form, if you did not know what you are doing

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