Phishing attacks have been used by criminals for years and they still remain as an essential element of on-line criminal activity which could target general public, organizations or individuals. Phishing is seen as a more effective, quick and simple attack to do compare to other types of hacking techniques. Phishing attacks can succeed 45% of the time and on-line criminals could obtain the credentials only within 30 minutes from their targets. This presentation will talk about the problem of phishing scams and will produce the outcome of phishing investigation and analyses of various types of phishing attacks in Ireland. It will present investigation techniques of phishing scams with Maltego tool which is used to gather information and determine the relationships between different types and sources of information. The information gathered with Maltego tool was used as one of the possible ways to trace the approximate location of distributors of phishing scams and establish relationships between them. Finally, this paper will conclude the studies by presenting recent statistical data and identify why Internet users are still hooked with this old type of cyber scam.