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"Phishing" a definition

Phishing is a particularly popular scam where a party tricks a user into providing a username and password or other personal information necessary to commit identity theft, such as a Social Security number, bank account number, PIN number, credit card number, mother's maiden name.

In many cases, this party creates an official-looking web page that asks for this information. Users will often receive a link to this phishing page via an email which claims to come from an official-looking (but likely forged) address. Given the nature of the web, it's easy to stumble upon these fraudulent websites by following links that you find in your email, on the web, or in IM messages.

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