The growth of the Internet and computer technology in recent years has led to the growth of cybercrime around the world. Scam artists use clever schemes to scam millions of people around the world every year. Cybercrimes affect our daily lives as much as regular crimes. When an Internet scammer pretends to be a company to trick you into providing your personal information, it's called phishing. It could be as simple as clicking on an email from an unknown source. Phishing scams occur on the Internet in various ways and cause extensive damage. As cyber crime is becoming bigger and bigger, it is also important to avoid falling victim to these phishing scams. Phishing is a serious crime that occurs frequently online and it is necessary to stop this Internet fraud. What is phishing? A type of Internet fraud that sends an email to a user saying it is from a legitimate company in an attempt to scam the user into providing private information. These include theft of passwords, credit card numbers, bank account details and other sensitive information. How phishing scams work is when a user receives an email that appears to come from a financial institution, government agency, or other well-known agency. The message will convince you with why you need to “verify” or “resubmit” personal or confidential information by clicking on a link within the message. The link will take you to a financial institution or government agency that looks almost identical to the legitimate one, however in reality the website belongs to the scammer. Once inside the website the user may be asked to provide their date of birth, social security numbers, account numbers, p...... half of a document ...... the services Legitimate companies will not ask you to provide or verify personal information collected in an insecure location, such as email. Phishing is absolutely wrong. Nowhere where phishing isn't wrong and there are plenty of laws against it. It's very unfair to trick someone into something, especially someone who isn't very familiar with computers. It's almost like you're taking candy from a child, it's not hard to do. Phishing targets people who have very little information or knowledge about computers and tricks them into providing information, which is then collected and used. Just because someone has little knowledge about something doesn't mean anyone should be able to take advantage of it and get them to do something. As our technology continues to grow, so does cybercrime. We can never end or stop cybercrime, all we can do is prevent it.