Matthew Hardaway CSCI101 Thursday 3:30pm

 Fishing (Encyclopedia Britannica): ◦ Sport of catching fish—freshwater or saltwater— typically with rod, line, and hook.  Phishing (Microsoft Help & Support): ◦ A technique used to trick computer users into revealing personal or financial information. A common online phishing scam starts with an e‑mail message that appears to come from a trusted source but actually directs recipients to provide information to a fraudulent website.

 Allows others to access account information.  Could allow for unwanted programs or viruses to be planted within your computer.

 If an looks suspicious, don’t open it!  Pay attention to the salutation. ◦ “Dear Client”, “Dear Valued Customer”, “To Whom It May Concern”, Etc.  Check for grammatical errors. ◦ Professional businesses know how to spell.  Double-check any links on the .  Banks and other businesses NEVER ask for personal information to be sent through an .

 Farming (Encyclopedia Britannica): ◦ The practice of agriculture.  Pharming (Microsoft Help & Support): ◦ When criminal hackers redirect Internet traffic from one Web site to a different, identical-looking site in order to trick you into entering your user name and password into the database on their fake site.

 Pharming is a more difficult form of fraud to detect.  Internet criminals create “spoof” sites that are identical to the original site of the company they are pharming. They can even copy the website code.  Pharming is a more professional way of obtaining personal information and account numbers from unsuspecting people.

 If you think that a website is fraudulent, contact the company directly and ask them about the website.  The same safety tips for phishing applies for pharming as well. 1.Grammatical errors 2.Asking for personal information 3.General design of website

 SPAM ® (SPAM.com): ◦ A canned meat product sold by the Hormel Foods Corporation.  Spam (Microsoft Help & Support): ◦ Unsolicited commercial e‑mail (UCE). Also known as junk e‑mail.

 174 calories per serving, 137 calories from fat.  Takes up a lot of computer memory.  Some Spam contain viruses, trojans, and worms.  Spam programs can add spyware or adware that track your activities on the computer.  To remove spam programs could call for deleting vital programs from your computer that lower productivity.  Extremely annoying.

 Check the sender of the . ◦ If you don’t recognize the sender, don’t open it.  Avoid “special offers” or other “to-good-to- be-true” messages.  Block spam addresses on your account.  Install spam filter or blocker programs onto your computer (from a trusted company, of course).