Many scam artists on the internet today are getting more and more unscrupulous and this article will how you can avoid losing your money to these people who live off ill gotten gains.

Other names for phishing include spoofing and carding. In all these transactions, these scam artists attempt to gain access to your sensitive credit card information and then proceed to take your money.

A typical phising artist would set up a website that looks a lot like the real website and then purchase a list of leads and email those leads. We shall take each of these elements in turn.

The website

Most phising websites have domains that sound like the real one and these scammers purchase templates that are modified from the real website. Such websites are frequently shut down and then these scammers start a new website with a new domain and then go on their spree. These websites are usually situated in Eastern Europe or Russia so enforcement against such scammers is quite hard and almost impossible in certain cases.

The emails

There are several things you need to know about these phising emails. The first is that many large mailing programs today can spoof emails so I can send an email to someone else and put whatever email address I want it to appear to be coming from. The second is that these emails usually use html, this is because they can embed the click link so that you do not realise that you are being directed to the scammer