A phisher shows that phishing can happen when you least expect it - even at the office.

A phisher pays an unexpected visit to someone's home.

Hovering your cursor over the link for a couple of seconds may do a similar thing, but this can still be set by the phisher.

This is the step people are most familiar with - the phisher sends a phony message that appears to be from a reputable source.

First of all, any phisher that makes a look-alike page will have no trouble emulating the login form.

If PayPal looked at the logs, this would be 100 percent proof that it was a phisher trying to get in.

If you have any reason to suspect that you have inadvertently provided information to a phisher, contact your bank and credit card companies immediately.

A phisher might pose as an AOL staff member and send an instant message to a potential victim, asking him to reveal his password.

-If the phisher wants to coordinate another attack, he evaluates the successes and failures of the completed scam and begins the cycle again.

Phishing trends to spike around the holidays or big events because the phisher can craft his bogus e-mail message around thesespecial times.

On January 26, 2004, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed the first lawsuit against a suspected phisher.

The front-end URL in the phishing attack cannot be reported to Microsoft and the phisher can continue to redirect to other URLs.

This is the first time a foreign national has been tried and convicted as a phisher in the United States, which may be why Judge Half chose the sentence that she did.

A phisher creates a fake wireless network that looks similar to a legitimate public network that may be found in public places such as airports, hotels or coffee shops.

In April 2007, Mininova B.V. (the company running Mininova.org) won a domain dispute about the domain mininova.com, which had been exploited by a phisher.

Once the phone number (owned by the phisher, and provided by a Voice over IP service) was dialled, prompts told users to enter their account numbers and PIN.

By spamming large groups of people, the "phisher" counted on the e-mail being read by a percentage of people who already had listed credit card numbers with eBay legitimately, who might respond.

Typically, the phisher sends an e-mail that appears to come from a legitimate business-a bank, or credit card company-requesting "verification" of information and warning of some dire consequence if it is not provided.

Nowadays to reduce working with the source code of web pages, Hackers have implemented a phishing tool called Super Phisher that makes the work easy when compared to manual method of creating a phishing websites.