Phishing e-mail is an increasing menace

Abstract

The usage and importance of e-mails has been continuously growing despite the availability of alternative means, such as electronic messages, mobile applications, and social networks. Majority of peoples are using e-mail as communication mechanism. The e-mail users are receiving unwanted e-mails, these unwanted e-mails are called as spam e-mails. Some spam e-mail contains phishing attacks which are called phishing e-mails. The phishing e-mails are asking users to give out their secret information which includes passwords, PIN, debit or credit card number, CVV or other important information which enables phishers to reach to the bank accounts of these users. The main objective of this paper is to identify the research gap after carrying out literature survey of Anti-phishing techniques and to propose an architecture for classifying the phishing e-mails to block the phishing e-mails which can be tested in test bed environment.