Phishing is a method cybercriminals used to get ahold of people’s information. By pretending to be someone else, fraudsters can trick you into giving them such details as your email password or your login credentials for other websites.

The scams that phishers use to fool individuals into handing over their sensitive information have increased in complexity in recent years. In response, many organizations have been set up, both by governmental organizations and private individuals,

About 1 million Gmail users were attacked in a phishing scam earlier this week using Google Docs. However, according to the company, less than 0.1 percent of Gmail users were only affected.