Problem statement
Phishing is still a problem in the field of cyber security. Every day we came to know about cyber crimes which are affecting the lives of the common man. Many of the people still do not know the importance of sharing their sensitive details to any body and cyber criminals always target the innocent people who do not know about it. These are many complaints which are registered with the cyber crime handling departments in the police station that people have been suffered because of the fraud done by the criminals online(Tambre, 2013). Phishing has different methods in which they manipulate people to get the sensitive informations about them like username, account details, OTP numbers for online transactions, credit card details and etc. So it is still a big problem which is needed to be solved by taken certain strict actions by the Information and Telecommunication department of the central government.
Purpose statement
The main purpose for this is to find the effective solutions to stop the scams online. Phishing is considered as an online scam which is done by the cyber criminals and hackers to gain the financial benefits by looting from the common and innocent people by getting their sensitive details. Proper knowledge about the kind of Phishing scam that can be done by the criminals should be given to every citizen like banks are already doing it by sending the SMS or texts to the people in different languages and also online users should also know how phishing mail can affect their financial belongings (Bhutt, 2011).
Research questions
The research question which can be built after having a keep look over the sensitivity of the topic that: -
1) What is the intent of doing phishing?
2) What are the possible steps that have been proposed by the specialist to handle the problem?
3) What are the better ways that the knowledge should be provided to common and innocent people to not to get trapped in the phishing scams?
4) What are the kinds of links on the mails can prove as a phishing mails?
5) How do the reports against the criminals can be launched quickly if any kind of scam happens?
6) How the police department will able to trace the criminals?
7) Does firewall can protect the phishing mails to get entered into the secured environment or the local environment?
Significance of the study
The significance of this study is to make people aware that phishing is scam and be aware of sharing any kind of sensitive information related to account or credits card or debit card details. This knowledge to the innocent and unknown people, help them in stopping and get suffered from the post effects of the phishing scams. Some kind of software should be produced to find the phishing mails by online companies like if take the example of Plagiarism software which detect the copied portion in the article quite effective. Providing the basic knowledge and steps to not to go for phishing mails and phone calls (Edmundo, 2013).
Why I choose this research topic
The main reason of choosing this topic is that I have also suffered from the problem and trapped in the phishing scam and I know after losing a huge about of hard earned money how it is difficult to cover-up and earn that money again by doing hard work. I don't want any other person to suffer from the same problem like I did. On the other hand, from the technological point of view there is very less research done on the topic. As this topic need a deep research and effective solutions.