Phishing is normally gettting your info common things are like emails that say you have won or emails from people claming to be a nigerian prince recently having come into posession of a large fortune...
phishing scams work best when the peson doing the scam is anonymus internet is great in person is terrible, you know who it is internet is on computer telephone, you can be tricked, but people are more likely to click on email than to be tricked by phone stuff fax isn't as much