Phishing (internet)

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Phishing are false web pages or E-mails to know personal facts about people, like their bank accounts. Phishing grew by 42% in January of 2005: 8,829 E-mails with phishing were sent in December of 2004 but that grew to 12,845 by end of January 2005.

The number of web pages with phishing grew from 1,740 to 2,560 in the same period.