Phishing (pronounced ‘fishing’) continues to be a problem and you need to protect yourself from it.

Wikipedia describes phishing as:

“the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.”

Basically it’s a fraudulent email from a thief and their objective is to rip you off. I’ve written about this before (see: “The Latest Facebook Email Spam Scam” and “How To Identify A Phishing Email”) but with the problem persisting here is more advice direct from Google: