For several months, perhaps for a couple of years, I get in through my e-mail "threatening" notices of closure of accounts in banks which have no relationship. Sometimes instead of "threats of closure of the relationship" canal so be promises of gifts of money or other valuables.

At this point you'll feel that I am a lucky man to whom so many people want to make major gifts. Sorry to disappoint you but I'm not lucky, and they are not lucky the millions of people who each day receive these messages, not to mention the people who fall into the trap of the criminals who send these messages.

Trap? They trap! These messages are traps specifically designed to do damage, especially economic, to those who are enticed unwary promises of prizes or are intimidated by "threats". This is all a big scam! It's phishing!

Not know yet what is phishing? It seems strange that has not yet heard, but since talk once more is better than not talking at all with what we see is this.

Phishing is a fraudulent activity that uses the study of individual behavior of a person in order to steal information (social engineering).

This technique is used, so as to obtain access to personal or confidential information with the purpose of identity theft through electronic communications for the most part bogus e-mail messages but are also used instant messaging and telephone contact.
These messages attempt to trick you and take it to reveal personal information, such as account numbers, credit card numbers, identification codes, etc.. that will be in the hands of people who definitely do not have good intentions.

The person (social engineer) who prepares these messages pretend to know, knows deceive others, in a word sa lie.

A social engineer is very good at hiding his identity, he pretends to be someone else succeeding can get information that could never achieve with his real identity.

The social engineer uses a standard method of phishing attack that normally is summarized in the following phases:

1. the attacker (phisher) to the hapless and unsuspecting user sends an e-mail that simulates, graphics and content, to an institution known to the recipient (eg your bank, your web provider, an auction site on line to be entered).

2. e-mail nearly always contains notices of special situations and problems occurring with their account/accounts (such as a huge charge, the expiration, the promise of prize money or valuables, etc.)..

3. e-mail asks the recipient to follow a link in the message, to avoid

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