A phishing website is a website that tries to obtain your account password or other personal information by making you think that you are on a legitimate website. Some phishing URLs differ from the intended URL in a single character specially chosen to increase the odds of a typo, while others utilize other channels to generate traffic.
Here is an example of a phishing website attempting to obtain a user's email address by pressuring a user into believing that their email will be shut down:
Since phishing is one of the most successful modes of attack, it is crucial to be able to identify when a URL is not legitimate. In this recipe, we will build a machine learning model to detect phishing URLs.
