phishing ?
I have an e-mail from Lloyds T.S.B. asking me to send in my details to update their records.Sounds a bit dodgy, I was told it's a phishing e-mail, apart from being dodgy what does phishing mean.
thank you
Very good answers here…. you can also forward a copy with full headers pasted at top to here:
reportphishing@antiphishing.org
Anti Phishing Working Group Org
http://www.antiphishing.org/
Report Phishing: Report phishing emails, pharming sites and crimeware to the Anti-Phishing Working Group and help stop this insidious threat to e-commerce. Click "Report Phishing" link below for instructions.
What is Phishing and Pharming?
Phishing attacks use both social engineering and technical subterfuge to steal consumers' personal identity data and financial account credentials. Social-engineering schemes use 'spoofed' e-mails to lead consumers to counterfeit websites designed to trick recipients into divulging financial data such as credit card numbers, account usernames, passwords and social security numbers. Hijacking brand names of banks, e-retailers and credit card companies, phishers often convince recipients to respond. Technical subterfuge schemes plant crimeware onto PCs to steal credentials directly, often using Trojan keylogger spyware. Pharming crimeware misdirects users to fraudulent sites or proxy servers, typically through DNS hijacking or poisoning.
MORE:
Microsoft: How to handle suspicious e-mail
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/email/phishingdosdonts.mspx