phishing

The act of sending an email to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in

an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft.

Phishing email will direct the user to visit a website where they are asked to update personal information,

such as a password, credit card, social security, or bank account numbers, that the legitimate organization

already has. The website, however, is bogus and set up only to steal the information the user enters on the page.