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1. Deceptive Phishing: Phishing scams started by broadcasting deceptive E-Mail messages with the objective of ID theft.
2. Malware-based Phishing: It refers to scams that involve running Malicious Code on the netizens system. Malware can be launched as an E-Mail attachment or as a downloadable file from a website or by exploiting known security vulnerabilities.
3. Keyloggers: Malware can embed a keylogger to track keyboard input and send relevant information, maybe the keylogger log, to the phisher through the Internet.
4. Session hijacking: It is an attack in which netizens activities are monitored until they establish their bona fide credentials by signing into their account or begin the transaction.
5. In session Phishing: It is a Phishing attack based upon one web browsing session being able to detect the presence of another session, (such as visit to an online banking website) on the same web browser and then a pop-up window is launched that pretends to be opened from the targeted session.
6. Web Trojans: It pops up to collect netizen's credentials and transmit them to the phisher while netizens are attempting to log in. Such pop-ups are usually invisible.
7. System reconfiguration attacks: Phisher can intrude into the netizens system (i.e., computer) to modify the settings for malicious purposes.
8. Content-injection Phishing: In this type of scam, phisher replaces part of the content of a legitimate website with false content to mislead the netizen to reveal the confidential personal information.
9. Search engine Phishing: It occurs when phishers create websites with attractive sounding offers (often found too good to be true) and have them indexed legitimately with search engines. Netizens find websites during their normal course of search for products or services and are trapped to reveal their personal information.
10. SSL certificate Phishing: It is an advanced type of scam. Phishers target web servers with SSL certifcates to create a duplicitous website with fraudulent webpages displaying familiar "lock" icon.