Chapter 2. Go phish
Conmen construct counterfeit websites that appear to be those of legitimate companies but, in fact, are just a way of hooking you into providing personal information that can be mined for identity theft. This scam is called phishing.
Phishing occurs when an identity thief lures you through a phony email that purports to be from a bank or other legitimate company to a bogus website that looks like the website of the legitimate company that the scammers pretend to be. This website requires you to provide personal financial information to verify your account or even allegedly to protect you from the very type of fraud that you are about to become a victim of. One telltale flaw in phishing schemes is that although the website to ...
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