Phishing Season

Where I live, fishing season has already begun. I have not had a chance to get out there yet, but I hope to soon.

There is another type of "Phishing" going on in the Internet which is not good at all. Phishing tries to get you to give things like your login user name and your password so that they can be used later by someone else.

Here is usually how it works. An E-mail arrives and it asks you to verify your user name and password; for your bank as an example. They tell you service will be shut down until you do this. When you click on the "Blue hyperlink" in the E-mail, you arrive at what looks like your bank site. It is a fake site. You give your info by inserting it into a login box.

They then have the ability to access your site because you just gave them your user name and password.

Places like you Bank and such will never ask you to verify your user name and password this way. So watch out. It is a scam.