There are many e-commerce crimes in the Internet world, for example, PHISHING. It is a common type of threats and attacks in e-commerce. Phishing is a technique that the perpetrator tries to steal sensitive personal information such as username, passwords and credit card numbers by instruct recipient to visit fraudulent websites. It is THEFT.Nowadays, it has become a significant criminal activity on the internet, especially happen by sending e-mail messages. Besides that, it also always happens in well known and trustworthy web sites, auction sites and online payment processors. For example, eBay, PayPal, online banks, Yahoo and MSN are the web sites that are always spoofed by the perpetrator.Perpetrator likes to send email by using eBay logo to gain credibility and cheated that billing is out of order and required eBay member to login and verify the charges again. From that, they can tries to steal sensitive personal information. Below is the example of the eBay phishing email :
2) PayPal phishing scams
In the example below, this PayPal phishing scams tries to cheat recipients by acting as a security alert. It claimed that someone 'from a foreign IP address tried to login to recipient’s PayPal account and the e-mail inside include a link that urges recipients clicking it to update and confirm their account details. By clicking the link actually directs the recipient to the attacker’s website.
3) Citibank phishing e-mail
From the example below, we can see that the perpetrator send e-mail by acting as a safety and integrity for the online banking community to get recipient’s banking information. In the email, recipients given a link to visit a fake website and enter banking information that the perpetrator tries to stole.
The following are the some prevention methods that use to prevent from phishing scams:
a)Do not reply e-mails or fill out the forms in e-mails that urgently requesting personal financial information. Legitimate sites normally will not send email to ask for this information.
b)Don't click the links in suspicious email because it might be fraudulent websites.
c)Check and report the incident with your bank whether the bank has sent email to request banking information.
d)Frequently check your bank, credit and debit cards to make sure that all transactions are legitimate.
e)Check the web address to make sure you are in the correct website before you enter sensitive information. For example, when you want to enter information on eBay’s website, make sure the URL in the address bar starts with
f)You can set strong password for your account and change it frequently so that it will not easy to attack by perpetrator.
g)You also must make sure that your browser is up to date and security patches applied. It can help to protect your computer by using antivirus software and keep your computer updated
h)Company can educate customers or government can educate citizens by providing information about the symbol of phishing happen and how it looks like.
Nowadays, crime rate in internet is increasing. By given the information above, I hope you all have more understand about the phishing and learn the prevention methods.
By Teng Teng
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