Phishing is a form of online identity theft. Phishers use social engineering to steal victims' personal identity data and financial account credentials. Social engineering schemes use spoofed e-mails to lure unsuspecting victims into counterfeit websites designed to trick recipients into divulging financial data such as credit card numbers, account usernames, passwords and social security numbers. In this paper, a thorough overview of a phishing attack and detection techniques is presented. Firstly, technologies used by phishers and the definition, classification and future works of deceptive ...
