Excerpt from book Unmasking the Hacker - phishing

The term phishing originates in 1996 with theAOHell scammers and it is a type of technology-basedfraud where emails are made to appear as being sentfrom legitimate companies or familiar people in orderto trick the recipients. There is nothing mystical inwhy phishing is successful, and neither are the perpetratorsof this type of cybercrime shadowy figures inhoodies. Phishing emails exploit human psychology,using social engineering techniques, to trick the recipientinto providing their account...