Phishing is an example of social engineering whereby attackers sends their targeted victims mail purporting to come from their mail service provider telling them to re-activate their account or lose it. The unsuspecting e-mail user will innocently supply every detail in a bid not to lose their e-mail but end up lossing it.
These thieves immediately change your account details and hijack your e-mail and commit all sorts of cybercrime with it and in most cases put you into trouble.
attached is a sample of this kind of e-mail.
Cheers everyone!!

new e-mail accounts are usually their target.
Also, have a close look at the sender's e-mail address.
Be guided.

Thank you for the information

Warning taken, thank a lot.

Thanks bros.

Nice to drop the information here.
The problem is that we usually like to learn from experience instead of avoiding the pitfall.

You have to look careful at the sender email and all the details written in the email. Some of them look very real and you can't tell the difference at first glance.


There's a test you can take to see if you can spot a fishing e-mail or not and you'd be amazed with the results.

You can do the test here:

http://www.sonicwall.com/phishing/

Mine is with Gtbank format, they said i should update my information online if not my ATM will be disable, My name,address,telephone number,account number,ATM number,pin number,my username and password, they are all lie, sorry i did not have the mail anymore in my inbox i would have posted it also,

There is this new world cup phishing going on now. They will e-mail you telling you that your free e-mail service provider is loaded with traffic because most people are in south africa watching the world cup thereby making the server to be overloaded.

After this, they will go ahead to as you to UPGRADE your account to their new server. A form will be provided to you asking for your login details.

Please DON'T FILL OUT ANY OF THESE FORMS as they are after your password. If you do, be sure never to have access to that account again.

The first thing they will do after hi-jacking your mail is to contact everybody in your contact book asking them to send money as 'you are stranded' in a remote place.

Bewarned.
Cheers!

I think emotivator is right about the link provided by enipops200,

Toprove this, just highlight the link,right click on it and notice option to copy SHORT CUT.This tells you that it is ashort cut to another site.

Again, clicking on the link will spoof a YAHOOMAIL homepage PLEASE dontsign in as that page is there to stealyour internet identity. Take a look at the URL bar and notice that the original web address is what you will find there.

elderly:

This poster is a fraudster promoting social engineering / phishing

He is one of those people behind the GTB/CBN and yahoo scam.

Beware
This poster

Elderly, He is indeed a scam everybody should beware of following links. Hover your mouse on the link and look at the status bar to be sure you are being directed to the right site.

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It is possible for a programmer to send you an email having the header below

From:  Yahoo! Inc. <info@yahoo.com>

I think what we must know is that, Yahoo will never ask for your username and password except you want to login into your account.And when you want to login, make sure the URL in the address bar of your browser is http://www.yahoomail.com/ or http://www.mail.yahoo.com/

Becareful!
http://www.paulstudio.net/

Great nairalanders,

We have to be very careful with the guy sending this message and take note of his phone number.
He must be a dangerous guy for all the information given here

Please beware of him (enipops200).

Gentle guy (enipops200), i beg you better use your knowledge for good rather than evil. God bless you

Long live nairaland

klog:

It is possible for a programmer to send you an email having the header below

From: Yahoo! Inc. <info@yahoo.com>

I think what we must know is that, Yahoo will never ask for your username and password except you want to login into your account.And when you want to login, make sure the URL in the address bar of your browser is http://www.yahoomail.com/ or http://www.mail.yahoo.com/

Becareful!
http://www.paulstudio.net/

klog, thanks for this information. People really need this kind of information to be reasonably safe online.

klog:

It is possible for a programmer to send you an email having the header below

From:  Yahoo! Inc. <info@yahoo.com>

I think what we must know is that, Yahoo will never ask for your username and password except you want to login into your account.And when you want to login, make sure the URL in the address bar of your browser is http://www.yahoomail.com/ or http://www.mail.yahoo.com/

Becareful!
http://www.paulstudio.net/

They use it

@enipops200 u ar a fool, nd a big one cuz , u jst learn how to phish nd u think dats all,u think u ar a hacker then shame on you, well i am a hacking bt an ethical hacker, i dnt do dis rubbish u do, by d way evry webhost scans all source code, especially 110mb so ur phisher and ur account shud b blockd by nw, u will need XSS coding to make a perfect phisher, i guess ur stupid tutor didnt tell u dat, u r a noob, nd a noob u remain, entering in a computer wivout paswd , dats is stupid my little sis cn do dat, i'm sure u only knw 4 windows, fool u cnt learn linux , so stop tring to destroy wat u cnt build k, knowledge of hacking is a gift given to few to protect all, so channel ur energy to possitivity,

@enipops200 u ar a fool, nd a big one cuz , u jst learn how to phish nd u think dats all,u think u ar a hacker then shame on you, well i am a hacking bt an ethical hacker, i dnt do dis rubbish u do, by d way evry webhost scans all source code, especially 110mb so ur phisher and ur account shud b blockd by nw, u will need XSS coding to make a perfect phisher, i guess ur stupid tutor didnt tell u dat, u r a noob, nd a noob u remain, entering in a computer wivout paswd , dats is stupid my little sis cn do dat, i'm sure u only knw 4 windows, fool u cnt learn linux , so stop tring to destroy wat u cnt build k, knowledge of hacking is a gift given to few to protect all, so channel ur energy to possitivity,

It looks like enipops200's account has been suspended by the host.

i told u, he just learnt d basics of phishing,

Thanks for this information you have given here.

Thanks for your REVELATION on e-mail phising, i could have ran into their hands it is real,new user of e-mail ( newbies)
should beware no reliable website we ask you to reveal your password.

internetbusinesataglance..com

i get a lot of these too, this is an example

http://tinypaste.com/af001

more here,
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-367988.0.html