What is phishing and how to be safe fromphishing ?

What is phiahing..?

Phishing is one of the type of hacking . It
is a method of acquiring sensitive information such as
username, password, bank information etc. Phishing
Page could be saif as an duplicate page of real one. Its
look exactly similar as the real page.But when user
enter sensitive information on such phishing page his
information is send to the E-mail address provided in
the phishing page or you can say the one who created
that phishing page. Phishing page is mostly send via
mail. Target of phishing are mostly social networking
sites like facebook, orkut etc. Also Banks website to
acquire credit card details,website like yahoo, gmail are
also target of phishing.

Exampal of phishing scams:

◆Email asking you to login to your locked
◆account to unlock it.
◆Email carrying a Link to sites like
Facebook,yahoo etc and asking you to
Login.
◆Emails containing some Information of
your Interest and asking you to Login to
Your Account.
how to be safe from phishing...?
◆Never login to any of your account
through link provided in the Email.
Go to real website dont click on any link
posted anywhere. such as link posted on
◆your facebook wall by friend or link
provided in comments or link to ceratin
website on any blog.
◆Check the URL of website before entering
◆any sensitive information. Because the
URL of phishing page is not same as the
URL of real one.
Real gmail page looks like gmail.com
while phishing looks different somthing
like gmail.anything.com