print email comment close Pharming: Is Your Trusted Web Site a Clever Fake? URL: http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/phishing/pharming.mspx Description: Brief questions and answers about "pharming," the Internet scam in which "criminal hackers redirect Internet traffic from one Web site to a different, identical-looking site in order to trick you into entering your user name and password into the database on their fake site." The term is spelled with a "ph" because it is "part of an underground slang system." From Microsoft. Publisher: Microsoft Corporation Library of Congress Subject Headings: Computer crimes Identity theft Internet fraud LII Database Information: Record 20750 created by Maria Brandt on 02/27/2006 Last modification on 06/08/2007 Published: 03/02/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20750