Recognzing Phishing Emails
Phishing is an attempt via email to trick people into revealing sensitive inforamtion like username, passwords, and credit cared information about them selves by pretending to be a bank or some other legitimate entity. The emails usually contain a link to a website that appears to be legitimate and which prompts you to provide your information.
Sometimes, these emails will contain a form attached for you to fill out your information. One common tactic is to pretend to be from the fraud department of a bank or online retailer and ask for information to be provided to avoid identify fraud.
There is also an increasing amount of emails exploiting news of interest and other popular topics to trick people into clicking on links. One email about swine flue asked people to provide their name, address, phone number, and etc as part of the survey about the flu. And users of social network are becoming popular targets. As these users are being directed to fake login pages.
So be careful out there and just don’t innocently give out your personal information to anyone without double checking the request and the reason for it.
November 17, 2009 12:47 pm 1 Comment
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