Our mission for publishing this white paper is to provide information on the problem and solutions for phishing and email fraud. Phishing is an e-mail fraud method in which the perpetrator sends out legitimate-looking email messages appear to come from well known and trustworthy Web sites in an attempt to gather personal and financial information from recipients. This paper also explains how information was used for identity theft and how phishers use a number of different method and e-mail spoofing ploys to try to trick their victims. Learn more about how this scam works, what a phishing e-mail message may look like and how can you avoid this type of scams.