Phishing and Netiquette....

Phishing and Netiquette are both different terms that my tech talk team and I discussed during our tech talk. Phishing is a concept that is the same as "Fishing" except in technology terms. Fishing you usually use bait to catch the fish well the same concept applies, you are the fish and emails/ identity theft are the bait. Phishing is the stealing of funds and identity through cyber space. Usually most of these messages may come as an e-mail or a message in chat room even. For example, the most common one I've heard of is AOL, AOL is famous for their chat rooms and online instant messaging, so if someone was to come into a chat room a "Phisher" would act as an Administrator from AOL asking for money or else the service will shut down. If this happens they may ask for your credit card number/ social security number/ or maybe even a home address. You should always do background checks before you just hand your identity over. Most recently it’s been happening through online banking, I've gotten e-mails from countless people acting like they are from a bank I haven't even heard of claiming that I am a member at my bank. The dumb thing to do would be to hand over my social security number and let them take care of it. Most of the hits are usually through TAX season now more than ever, some may send emails posing as the IRS asking for personal bank/social security information because they believe that you messed up on something in your taxes. You always have to watch, some forms come in through donations, an email will come out asking for money to help out with a donation to help a kid come over from Europe or somewhere in Africa or Asia and it will ask you to please help donate. You always have to do background checks on everything now, I mean it’s not to say that you can be greedy or what not but identity is not safe anymore even on the computer/ internet. Doing my research on both of these can help damage your life, so be careful.Netiquette is something totally different; netiquette comes from the word etiquette, which is a social behavior basically how you portray yourself to society. After searching the web and reading some things and watching TV clips on netiquette it’s very important. Netiquette now-a-days could mean a lot of different things such as how you get a job or even into school somewhere. I know for a fact that a lot of jobs can do background checks and they can go and see how you are in your personal life. Anything you post anymore is really up in the air on the internet for anyone to post now-a-days. A picture from college days might cost you a job in the long run. It good to have netiquette because anything out there can ruin you. For instance in class we talked about some instances with privacy, I believe that a good example of netiquette is Michael Phelps and his incident that cost him some sponsors, everything now a days with media I believe lets people know you as well as you know yourself.