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.

Check out this new Bank of America Phishing Email. Beware of this one!

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 a way of stealing an individual’s personal information and use that information to steal money from their account. Nowadays, there is an alarming rise in the number of fraudulent activities. Though many activities are carried out against it but phishing still remains a major fraudulent activity as the criminals are also becoming equally clever. Though there are many       anti–phishing groups, laws and many technological developments which tell us about the different phishing techniques, there is a need to create widespread awareness about the phishing techniques and how to prevent it.

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.

What is Phishing?
As the technology advances it takes criminal technology too along with it. In the modern days of computers people try to find out an easy solution to all the problems they have using computers and so they have passwords, user names etc. The simplest definition of phishing could be that any activity which is done to steal these personal and confidential details is called Phishing.

Here is a Phishing email posing as Bank of America (BofA)

	Remember: Always look for your SiteKey before you enter your passcode during Sign In »		Your Online Banking Is Blocked
			Your Online Banking ID was blocked . Because of unusual number of invalid login attempts on your account , we had to believe that, their might be some security problem on your account.