Hijacking personal information. Some of these scams have very elaborate and quite official looking websites that mimic PayPal, eBay, or your bank. Typically an email arrives warning you that you must update your account. Clicking on the link brings you to the fake site, where your login and password is harvested.
See also /MDesrosiers/phishing.html
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