Just as AOL stated years ago, “Nobody from AOL will not contact you to ask for your credit card number.” If somebody emails, calls or otherwise contacts you claiming to be a company you do business with and asks for personal information, directs you to a Web page to submit personal information, or otherwise attempts to draw personal information from you, STOP! Don’t do it. They are fishing for information. Of course, to be newsworthy, it has to be spelled differently in the new millennium, but it is the same old scam that has been circulating since there have been scam artists.

Email phishing, just like real world fishing, and pronounced the same, is when somebody who claims to represent a third party, say your bank, sends you an email and directs you to a Web page, with an address that looks similar to their real address, in order to get a credit card number, account number, etc.

Our new email server by empowering easy implementation of sender identification protocols such as ‘YAHOO DomainKeys’ and ‘Sender ID’ have undertaken the task to fight this illegal practice. Smarter servers, and a smarter Web community, will make the Web a much safer place. A recent report in eMarketer.com showed that phishing is on the rise in Asia-Pacific. As they ramp up in usage so to shall the perils.

Example of Phishing