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.

A lot of financial institutions now days, are opting for anti phishing training for their staff. For the simple reason that they do not want any kind of leakage of data to happen and also to educate them so that they may in turn educate their clientele on the said subject.

Talking of trainings, you must have heard about the normal procedures of training like an e-training module, class room training, offsite trainings so on and so forth.

In the modern days, some very common words that we come across are phishing attacks, credit card phishing, email fraud, online scams, identity theft online etc.

What are they?

These firstly are criminal activities, and they are categorized under cyber crime. They happen over the internet, and so are categorized under the cyber crimes. What happens is that critical details of people are stolen and used to make some financial transaction or with the simple motive to steal money from the victim’s account.