Phishing -- the illegal practice of posing as a trusted business or financial institution online in order to deceptively obtain sensitive personal data -- can be exposed when individuals use IntelliLogin.

Typically a phisher will send an email asking the recipient to visit a web page to confirm sensitive account information. The page will look identical to the business' real page, but is in fact a fake. When the victim types in his or her confidential information on the page, the data is sent to the criminal and the scam is complete.

What makes IntelliLogin an effective anti-phishing tool, is its practice of securely storing the URL, or Internet address, of sign-in pages in a IntelliCard.

IntelliLogin shows IntelliCard as matching only if a URL stored in IntelliCard matches an online URL. If a potential victim routinely uses IntelliLogin to log-in to web sites, they will not be able to log-in to a fake site because the URL of fake web site would not match URL stored in IntelliCard for the real web site. Users will be tipped off, exposing the fake web site as a phishing scam.

Similarly, when user logs in to account using IntelliLogin, IntelliLogin would fill only the login page that has URL that matches URL stored in IntelliCard.

Finally, anytime a user fills in credit card, social security, or other sensitive info using IntelliLogin, the software automatically opens a warning box stating that the web site is asking for sensitive info. The admonition is an important reminder for IntelliLogin users.