Abstract
Phishing is the act of sending an email to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate business, in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft.
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See Phishing Statistics, available at (www.brighthub.com), (visited 29/07/2011).
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Chawki, M., Darwish, A., Khan, M.A., Tyagi, S. (2015). Attempts and Impact of Phishing in Cyberworld. In: Cybercrime, Digital Forensics and Jurisdiction. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 593. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15150-2_4
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