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Attempts and Impact of Phishing in Cyberworld

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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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  1. 1.

    See Phishing Statistics, available at (www.brighthub.com), (visited 29/07/2011).

  2. 2.

    Ibid.

  3. 3.

    Ibid.

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  1. International Association of Cybercrime Prevention (AILCC), Paris, France

    Mohamed Chawki

  2. Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt

    Ashraf Darwish

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India

    Mohammad Ayoub Khan

  4. College of Computer Science and Engineering, Yanbu Branch, Taibah University, Medina, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Mohammad Ayoub Khan

  5. Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad, India

    Sapna Tyagi

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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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