For your safety you better read this article, hope you learn something and don’t get scammed.

As you understand it ,literally, ” the man placed in the middle of the road “. While you think of being in direct relation with a reliable Web site, for example the one of your bank, an intruder intervened on the connection and relieves messages with destination or from the site. This individual can so steal your identifier of connection and your password or still hijack your session, by maintaining it opened after you believe to have closed it.

But for all paranoids here, don’t panic too much ! It can easily be detected by an antivirus ( for example if you have to download a file and it’s a virus, you know this e-mail is not from your company). Or sometimes the e-mail of your company doesn’t match with the one of the “man in the middle” e-mail address.