Anatomy of a Phishing Email

This paper discusses the tricks employed by email scammers in “phishing” emails, which are emails that spoof a reputable company in an attempt to defraud the recipient of personal information. These tricks are classified according to whether they are employed in the fraudulent emails or used in the fraudulent Web pages accessed by a link provided in the email. All of the examples used within the paper were taken from fraudulent emails forwarded to MailFrontier, Inc., from its customers.