Phishing
Phishing is one or more of fake emails that attempt to obtain information about online banking customers.
Definitions
According to College Accounting: A Practical Approach by Slater (13th edition),
- Phishing. Fake emails that attempt to obtain information about online banking customers.
According to the CyBOK (version 1),
- Phishing. A fraud that lures users into giving away access credentials to online services to a criminal.
Related concepts
- Accounting (alternatively known as accountancy) is management of financial data, information, and knowledge about financial transactions of legal entities. Accountancy tends to include bookkeeping and, depending on a particilar enterprise, may also include quatitative analysis of financial data in the bookkeeping system and/or business intelligence.
