All About Phishing: The Origin Of The Term, Its Classification.

Posted by GuestBlogger in Computer Security on 07 6th, 2010 | no responses

Phishing – is targeted espionage action of fraudsters to obtain confidential financial information by phishing user’s data via email or luring its victim on the site that is an exact copy of the internet banking or other financial institution.

It is interesting the origin of the term phishing. Most sources refer to the English word fishing, which in translation means to catch fish that is just suited for Internet fraud. The only thing that remains unclear why instead of the first letter f it is used letter combinations ph. Definitely when it comes to catch fish, it is used the word fishing, and when we mean phishing in the Internet, it is used the term phishing.

In the popular Internet encyclopedia “Wikipedia” this fact is explained by the fact that the term phishing comes from two words: password and fishing, i.e. password phishing. Such an explanation of the appearance of the term seems to be quite logical, but here is no letter