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The problem of phishing is gaining gigantic proportions on the mobile phones these days. So better be alert the next time you receive a message or a call from your mobile operator asking you to call a certain number to unsubscribe a certain service. There is a strong possibility of it being a phishing message.
The SMS phishing or simply SMiShing is similar to spam emails that take computer users to illegitimate website posing as an authentic one. SMS phishing too is designed to fool the mobile user into visiting a phished site by sending an SMS falsely appearing to be from a trustworthy entity.
There have been many cases when mobile owners have fallen in this SMS phishing trap that led to the leakage of crucial information like user names, passwords and credit card numbers. SMS phishing or SMiShing is designed to misguide a person into visiting a website, whereas vishing will instruct him / her to call a number such as the customer care number of a telecom service provider and so on. In reality such a call is routed to a hacker.
The increasing popularity and use of the mobile phone has resulted in the rise of crimes like SMiShing and voice phishing alongside. The previous year
