Am falu cachu diddiwedd. Ai i hyn yn cadwyd ni ?

Berwyn Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Rhag ofn y bydd rhai ohonoch ar ddi-hun yn crafu'ch pennau drwy'r nos, dyma ddiffiniad gwefan http://www.pcwebopedia.com/TERM/p/phishing.html o'r term phishing'. (Ar hafan y wefan, gyda llaw, fe restrir y termau diweddaraf a ychwanegwyd at ei geiriadur termau.)

"(fish´ing) (n.) The act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft. The e-mail directs the user to visit a Web site where they are asked to update personal information, such as passwords and credit card, social security, and bank account numbers, that the legitimate organization already has. The Web site, however, is bogus and set up only to steal the user’s information. For example, 2003 saw the proliferation of a phishing scam in which users received e-mails supposedly from eBay claiming that the user’s account was about to be suspended unless he clicked on the provided link and updated the credit card information that the genuine eBay already had. Because it is relatively simple to make a Web site look like a legitimate organizations site by mimicking the HTML code, the scam counted on people being tricked into thinking they were actually being contacted by eBay and were subsequently going to eBay’s site to update their account information. By spamming large groups of people, the “phisher” counted on the e-mail being read by a percentage of people who actually had listed credit card numbers with eBay legitimately.

Phishing, also referred to as brand spoofing or carding, is a variation on “fishing,” the idea being that bait is thrown out with the hopes that while most will ignore the bait, some will be tempted into biting.

Other forms: phish (v.) "

Gobeithio y bydd yr uchod o ryw gymorth. Rhyw ffurf ar 'pysgota' ('pys-gotcha' ddwedai'r Sun, mae'n siw^r!) neu 'bachu' fyddai orau, mae'n debyg.

Pres-gota?

Berwyn

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From: [log in to unmask] href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">Puw, John

To: [log in to unmask] href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">Berwyn Prys Jones

Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 4:58 PM

Subject: Phishing

Gyfeilllion

Ar ddiwedd dydd brafia'r flwyddyn, cwestiwn anodd. Mae'r uchod yn cyfeirio at droseddwyr yn casglu gwybodaeth amdanoch ar y rhyngrwyd trwy eich cyfeirio at dudalennau sy'n edrych fel gwefan y banc ayyb, lle'r ydych yn cofnodi eich manylion cyfrif ac ati, ac yna'n deffro i gur pen go iawn yn y bore pan fo'r banc yn eich ffonio i dweud fod eich cyfrif wedi diflannu dros nos!

Byddai gair neu ddau o gymorth yn cael gwared o'n cur pen ni bore fory, felly os nad ydych yn gallu cysgu heno, plis meddyliwch am ein problem fach ni!

Diolch o galon

John

John Puw
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