Detection of Phishing Websites using URL and terms in the Webpage
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Phishing is the combination of social engineering and technical exploits used to convince a victim to provide their personal information, usually for financial gains [10]. Phishing has become the most popular practice among cyber criminals due to which they are becoming more frequent and more sophisticated. The impact of phishing is drastic and significant since it involves the risk of identity theft and moreover financial losses. Phishing scams have become a bane for net-banking and e-commerce users. Many anti-phishing mechanisms currently focused to verify whether a web site is genuine or not. In this paper, study of anti-phishing techniques to safeguard users against them is elaborated. Keywords— Brand name; Phishing E-mail; phishing detector; hyperlinks; Search Engine; Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency. __________________________________________________*****_________________________________________________
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