Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Beware!!!!!!Internet Scams..........(Part - I)

HACKING: Hacking is the act of unauthorizedly accessing the internet in disguise due to the ignorance and carelessness of the users.
PHARMING: Is an act hwere the hacker redirects the traffic from a legitimate website to another fake website, thereby prompting the users to provide the confidential information like the user name, pass word, and other security questions or PIN numbers of debit and credit cards.
In the act of PHARMING even if the user types in the correct URL or the web address the hacker will still be able to redirect the user to a fake site.

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1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am also a victim of internet fraud. Technology should be fool proof.

May 19, 2007 12:18 PM  

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