We often receive emails from companies that we are acquainted with asking us to visit their website to correct some personal information. Once at the website, we enter our information to log into the site and then update our information. Have you ever stopped to wonder if you are giving your information to the company you think you are, or maybe you are giving out personal information to a criminal?

The process of a thief using a combination of emails and websites that are posing as something they really aren’t in order to get you to hand over your valuable personal information is called phishing. Phishing is becoming on of the favorite methods used by criminals to steal from unsuspecting consumers.