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Windows Vista Phishing Filter User Guide
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
“Phishing” is when an e-mail is sent with the intent of extracting personal information from the recipient. Typically, the information 
being sought is both personal and financial. As such, the authors of these phishing efforts typically disguise the e-mail as a very professional and courteous correspondence from a trusted source such as a bank, insurance company, or even educational institution. Within the body of the e-mail is a hyperlink to a fraudulent Web site which will present a similarly trusting face to the ensnared victim and then require perhaps two or three pieces of information to “update their database” or “process their re-enrollment.”
In addition to posing as a familiar face to the victim, these Web sites portray themselves as extremely security-conscious and require great levels of “authentication” before continuing. It is in the information provided for validation that the scammers reach their goal in gaining passwords, Social Security numbers (SSNs), and account numbers. Their ploy is to present themselves as everything that they’re not; secure, professional, and out for your best interests. Windows Vista’s Phishing Filter: A User’s Guide
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