Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Phishing Scams
- Phishing
- How to identify phishing
- Impersonalised greeting
- The phishers won't know your real name!
- Bad grammar
- The phishers often won't bother to
proofread their work, so look out for
spelling and grammar mistakes
- Variation on genuine address
- They won't use their personal email
address, so usually they will alter a real
one.
- False link
- If there is a link included in the
email, roll your mouse over it
to check it leads to where it
says it does
- Personal information
- Phishers will often ask
for information such as
bank details or date of
birth
- Urgency
- Often there will be a deadline for the information
requested. e.g. "If you do not submit your account
details by midnight tomorrow, your account will be
closed and you will lose any money saved in it."
- How to deal with a phishing email
- Ring up the person they're
pretending to be to check if the
email is real
- You never know, it might be a genuine email
- Save a copy of the email
- This can be used as
evidence if you tell
anybody
- Report it as phishing
- You can do this by clicking on the report button or
reporting it on an online website