The Phishing Detector

Phishing (also known as spoofing) is the act of attempting to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business (most common on the Net are eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Microsoft and many financial institutions) with a real need for such information in a seemingly official electronic notification or message (most often an email, or an instant message).

It is a form of social engineering attack. The term phishing comes from the fact that Internet scammers are using increasingly sophisticated lures as they "fish" for user's financial information and password data.

Spot phishing and email frauds with the premier free Fair Trade Authority Phishing Detector plug-in for Outlook Express and Outlook. With this Anti-phishing tool you can detect Phishings, Email Frauds and Spoofed emails immediately at your INBOX with one click.

Phishing Detector will be able to recognize phishing e-mails pretending to come from eBay, Amazon, PayPal, eGold and hundreds of other financial institutions, in a stunning 99% of cases.

Requirements:

￭ Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 ￭ Outlook Express 5.x and above