Phishing

Phishing is a criminal method of trying to trick people into handing over their online and security passwords, they usually want the details and passwords of your banks and other important data. The scam that is created by criminals is made to look like emails which makes people thinks its been sent by their bank. The scam will usually involve a link under the email that makes the readers believe they have to click on it, after that the link will take them to a website that asks them to write their email and password ( the link will look like their online bank account). The link attached to the email is under the criminals controls so the details and password the victim types in the criminal gets hold of straight away. The criminal then takes advantage of all the details he gets and uses it to steal money from the victims bank accounts. 


To prevent being a victim of phishing make sure you never go on to links from an email claiming to be from your bank. This is the most common way criminals get hold of details so ignore going on to the link and typing in any details. Make sure if you ever get a link from your email asking your to sign in make sure the website is verified and genuine, if your not sure you can call customer services and ask if the email is common practice, if they say its not then tell them about the email and they will get rid of it for you. Another step for protection is to install a good Anti - Virus programme, some great products that will insure your computers fully protected from viruses is the AVG Free programme, Avast, Zone Alarm etc...