What is Phishing?

Phishing is a process whereby fake web sites are used to trick you into thinking that you are interacting with a trusted site, a brand name, online retailer and bank or business partner site. The site then lures you into submitting your sensitive personal or financial information which falls into the wrong hands. There are on the average 300-400 rogue web sites at any one time (as of the 2nd quarter 2004), reports the Anti-Phishing Working Group industry association. These rogue sites target millions of innocent users. About 5% of these users take the bait concludes APWG.

A common scheme is to send emails which direct you to what looks like a trusted web site. But emails are by no means the only way. They may get you to their site when you simply click on a search result, when you use instant messaging or by planting spyware in your computer.

SignupShield monitors your form submission activities to alert you when you are about to submit sensitive personal or financial information to a suspicious web site.

SignupShield does not care about what is displayed on an address bar, SignupShield cares only about two things:

1.What information you are about to submit?
2.Where is this information going?

When you submit sensitive personal or financial information via a web form and this information is about to be sent to a suspicious site, SignupShield will alert you, giving you the opportunity to intervene and stop that submission! Thus, SignupShield does not produce an alert each time you just visit a site. It limits its intervention to cases where actual sensitive information is about to be submitted.

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