What is phishing?

The act of acquiring private or sensitive data from personal computers for use in fraudulent activities. Phishing is usually done by sending emails that seem to appear to come from credible sources (however, they are in no way affiliated with the actual source/company), which require users to put in personal data such as a credit card number or social security number.

An identity theft scheme. Fraudulent emails that seek to aerie acquire your personal information: credit card numbers, bank account.,etc.

2. A corrupted website that it may looks like a safe website with a safe contents .