Phishing is an act of illegally procuring or trying to procure confidential financial information pertaining to Bank account (password) and/or Credit Card related detail of an individual or group of individuals. Phishing is usually done by creating look-alike web sites of Banks and Card issuing companies, where unsuspecting people are requested to enter or share their confidential data, through spam email requests. Historically, the origin of phishing dates back to the year 1995-1996.

What we know and what we acquire is a waste if it is not executed in the right manner. We need to be aware of the threats that phishing causes. In order to tackle phishing related dangers we need to give concise and precise training to as many people as we can. If it is an organization we need to train everybody how to prevent phishing, or going a step further if your employees are able to detect phishing mails or sites or contents than your anti phishing training program has really been a success.

Phishing is defined as the activity of stealing one’s account through the fraudulent acts. The main aim is to know the personal information of the people and hack their account. The phishing starts with a mail or a telephone call telling that they are calling from a particular bank and they wish to know the security code or other personal information of the credit card user.

A kind of internet treachery is known as phishing. It lures internet users to give away personal and financial information to the hacking websites. These websites imitate the trustworthy and familiar websites of the user and generally send spam emails and pop messages o extract information. The financial information extracted could be used to withdraw money from bank account of the user in unauthorized transactions.

Even Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) using strong cryptography could not restrict these hackers to sending such messages.