The internet is no different from the real world because crimes also exist in it. And even more, the internet crimes have no difference from the ones we experience in the real world such as theft. And this stealing crime took its internet form through phishing and pharming.
Phishing pertains to the act of obtaining access credentials such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by posing as a trustworthy entity through email or instant messaging. Its concept is basically drawn from the act of fishing which indirectly leads to baits used to catch the personal and financial information. Meanwhile, Pharming is the act of redirecting a website’s traffic to another fake website by manipulating the victim’s host file or DNS server software.
Pharming and Phishing are both internet crimes on online identity theft information. Both can take the form of e-mails to mess up with their victims. But these two differ on the manner of stealing. Phishing has a smaller scale than Pharming because it only targets individuals one at a time while Pharming can target many victims with just one attack. Furthermore, Pharming maybe more complicated than Phishing but it is more notorious. Today, Pharming is a major concern to ecommerce businesses and online banking.