Learn in the textbookTargeted Attacks and Phishing Scams
DefinitionPhishing (フィッシング) is a scam that poses as a real organization such as a bank, lures people by email or similar to a fake site identical to the genuine one, and tricks them out of IDs, passwords, card numbers and other information.
ExplanationThe typical pattern is a message that makes users panic as if trouble will follow unless they act quickly, then gets them to open the fake site through a link. Since it is the user who types in the information, the safeguard is to ignore the link received and open the official site from a bookmark saved in advance.
AnalogyIt is like a letter scam that mails an envelope identical to a real bank's, containing a fake form that says "Please write your PIN and return it for verification", and steals what people write.
Memory hookIt is spelled phishing but sounds like fishing, which fits the picture of baiting a hook to reel in information.