Phishing
Phishing is a process of tricking people to give up their personal information, such as logins to a bank account. Phishing scam is usually begins with email, which looks like legit, but further evaluation of it may reveal that it is not, for example such email may come from an unknown source.
A scam email message may state that it comes from the bank, and that attempt to login to you account was made. Such email may have a link to reset your account password, to prevent further attempts of exploiting the password.
A web page will look like a real banking web site, but in reality it is a fake web site that was setup by attackers.
By entering user name and password information in such web site, a person just had revealed sensitive information to an attacker.
Email service providers like Gmail had setup protection from spam emails, and such filters do a good job, but once in a while phishing email still goes through.
A person needs to be vigilant.
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