Abstract
From the inception of email in the last era until this hour, many stories about misleading victims in phishing emails are published. Phishing email has been considered to be one of the most common threats. Many researchers wonder why the phishing email still works. The problem lies in the strategies used by the attacker in the electronic trap and the lack of security awareness by the user at the same time. This paper presents stages and steps of phishing email and investigates the most tricking techniques used by the attacker to attract the user. The paper also motivates work on non-technical solutions and reviews the types of detection methods of phishing emails concentrating on methods related to message contents.