Question

Shruti clicks on a link forwarded from a company she has heard of, to shop online on an ecommerce website. She selects a product but when she is about to feed in her credit card details for payment, she realises that there is no lock icon on the URL, nor is there an https in the URL and the name of the website is misspelled slightly. She realises that the website was not authentic. The process where fake websites are used to collect financial information is called
a. Phishing.
b. Spamming
c. Scamming
d. Plagiarism​

Answer 1

Answer:

a) Phishing

Explanation:

The process where fake websites are used to collect financial information is called phishing