Most methods of phishing use some form of technical deception designed to make a link in an email (and the spoofed website it leads to) appear to belong to the spoofed organization. Misspelled URLs or the use of subdomains are common tricks used by phishers, such as this example URL, http://www.yourbank.com.example.com/. Another common trick is [...]
Capture of AOL account information may have led phishers to misuse credit card information, which then evolved into attacks against online payment systems. The first known direct attempt against a payment system affected E-gold in June 2001, which was followed up by a « post-911 id check » shortly after the September 11 attacks on the World [...]
Those who would later phish on AOL during the 1990s originally used fake, algorithmically generated credit card numbers to create accounts on AOL, which could last weeks or even months. After AOL brought in measures in late 1995 to prevent this, early AOL crackers resorted to phishing for legitimate accounts.[12]
Phishing on AOL was closely associated [...]
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This phishing attempt, disguised as an official email from a (fictional) bank, attempts to trick the bank’s members into giving away their account information by « confirming » it at the phisher’s linked website.
A Geocities web page duplicating the Yahoo! login page.
In computing, phishing is a criminal activity using [...]
This shows internet explorer 7 and it’s built in phishing filter at work catching a fake paypal site