1. Dragnet: This method involves the use of spammed E-Mails, bearing falsified corporate identification (e.g., corporate names, logos and trademarks), which are addressed to a large group of people- (e.g., customers of a particular financial institution or members of a particular auction site) to websites or pop-up windows with similarly falsified identification. Dragnet phishers do not identify specific prospective victims in advance. Instead, they rely on false information included in an E-Mail to trigger an immediate response by victims - typically, clicking on links in the body of the E-Mail to take the victims to the websites or pop-up windows where they are requested to enter bank or credit card account data or other personal data.

2. Rod-and-reel: In this method, phishers identify specifc prospective victims in advance, and convey false information to them to prompt their disclosure of personal and financial data. For example, on the phony webpage, availability of similar item for a better price (i.e., cheaper price) is displayed which the victims may be searching for and upon visiting the webpage, victims were asked for personal information such as name, bank account numbers and passwords, before confirming that the "sale" and the information is available to the phisher easily.

3. Lobsterpot: This method focuses upon use of spoofed websites. It consists of creating of bogus/phony websites, similar to legitimate corporate ones, targeting a narrowly defined class of victims, which is likely to seek out. example of a deceptive URL address linking to a scam website. The phisher places a weblink into an E-Mail message to make it look more legitimate and actually takes the victim to a phony scam site, which appears to be a legitimate website or possibly a pop-up window that looks exactly like the official site. These fake sites are also called "spoofed" websites. Once the netizens is into one of these spoofed sites, he/she might unwittingly send personal information to the con artists. Then they often use your information to purchase goods, apply for a new credit card or otherwise steal your identity.

4. Gillnet: This technique relies far social engineering techniques and phishers introduce Malicious Code into E-Mails and websites. They can, for example, misuse browser functionality by injecting hostile content into another site's pop-up window. Merely by opening a particular E-Mail, or browsing a particular website, netizens may have a Trojan. Horse introduced into their systems.