Then
it urges the user to follow a link (provided in the text),
where he is requested to sign in and ?¬?x the situation.
2. If the user happens to be an actual customer of the alleged
source of the communication, he may believe in
the validity of the communication and comply with
these instructions. As soon as the victim follows the link,
he??™ll land on a page that mimics (with different degrees
of success) the sign-in user experience that the emulated
bank normally features.
3. If the user believes in the truthfulness of the communication,
and the imperfections in the fake user experience
are not enough to prompt the user to notice that the current
website is not what it pretends to be, all is lost. The
Phishing pages
pretend to be legitimate
websites and
trick the user into
entering valuable
information
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user will type his or her credentials in the text ?¬?elds provided,
literally handing to the rogue application his username
and password. The user took the bait and has been
phished. Sometimes, the malicious website will perform
a redirect to the legitimate page it simulates, lowering
the chances that the user will realize there??™s something
wrong.
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