Prevent Phishing

Phishing (sometimes referred to as "spoofing") refers to forged or faked electronic documents, most commonly email. A phishing email is usually forged to appear as though it was sent by someone other than the actual source. These emails falsely claim to be from a legitimate business like Adobe in an attempt to convince you to divulge sensitive personal information such as online account passwords, credit card numbers, or bank account information. These emails usually attempt to direct you to a fake website also purporting to be the official URL of the legitimate company. The website, however, turns out not to be genuine. Adobe will never request your personal information or any account information held by us through email. 

Fake emails often include a link to a fake web page that looks very real. These fake pages are used by criminals to collect personal information. If you visit a page and aren't sure whether it's really a web page from Adobe, especially if the page requests personal information from you, click off the site and visit the Adobe home page at www.adobe.com to begin there. Also, updates to Adobe software are made available from Adobe only on our website — we do not make any updates to our software available through third parties. Even if the web address contains the word "Adobe," it might not be an Adobe site.