Friday, 12 May 2017

Phishing Questions (Wednesday)

Phishing
1. Things you need to watch out for in a phishing email are

  • giving out your personal info, like passwords, home location, and other info
  • malicious links
  • viruses
  • requests to meet at a location
  • false information
2. 5 ways you can determine if an email is a scam
  1. Check the Email, if the email says they are part of a company, check if the email has the company name.
  2. Grammatical Errors
  3. Unpersonalized, if the email does not say your name directly then it's deffinetly a scam
  4. Fake Details, if the information in the email is a very excessive (ie. WE ARE GIVING AWAY $100,000,000 FOR FREE!)
  5. Threats
     


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