File: PhishingTrustedBank.png

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What a typical "phishing" e-mail may look like. The bank here is fictional, but it is to be assumed that a real phishing attempt would claim to be from an actual bank the customer belongs to. Notice how it tries to establish authenticity by using the bank's logo and providing what appears to be link to a website the customer has been to many times before.

This image was created by Wikipedian Andrew Levine for illustrative purposes only.

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current18:34, 2 August 2007Thumbnail for version as of 18:34, 2 August 2007549 × 408 (11 KB)Andrew Ferron (talk | contribs)What a typical "phishing" e-mail may look like. The bank here is fictional, but it is to be assumed that a real phishing attempt would claim to be from an actual bank the customer belongs to. Notice how it tries to establish authenticity by using the bank

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