How to recognize phishing scam?

What is phishing scam - most often it is an email, text message (sms) and others. Here we will look at email phishing. This is a scam that tries to convince you to do something - for example, to update your data and / or follow a link to a malicious site.

How to recognize phishing email?

If you receive an email that you do not expect and the email requires you to do something urgent - Never do what it says! Check the legitimacy of the email with the respondent.

Most often, fraudulent emails claim that:

There is suspicious activity or login attempts
Problem with your account
Includes fraudulent invoice
Requires you to click on a link to update / confirm personal informationя
You win, you get something for free or you will be refunded
You are sender and receiver at the same time

This list does not include all possible scams. For example, if you do not have an account on a site, but are required to confirm registration or something similar - this is a phishing scam.

For example, this email from a bank, the lack of these things suggests phishing scam:

The username or your name is missing. If you are a customer of a company, email will start with your name.
The link in the email does not lead to the company's website. You can see the link to where it leads by moving the mouse over the link and at the bottom left you will see that it does not lead to the respective company. Do not open the link! Do not download attachments!
The email from which the email is received is not from the company's website
The email does not include information about the company itself such as phone, email and others
Email have a bad design and looks generic

In this phishing email they try to take your PayPal login details by clicking the updating button which will take you to a copy of PayPal site. You see in the red bar that your email provider is warning you that the email is a scam.

A scam in which they try to make you pay for a fictitious shipment. The "Click here" link leads to a malicious site..

You have been hacked and they have your information - fraud and extortion to transfer money to delete shameful videos / photos.

We got this fishing email, that our office email is full. When you check the email header, you can see that sender is not from our servers.

Unfortunately, we cannot show all possible phishing scams. If your email seems weird and you've never received one, it's almost certainly phishing. You have to be careful, because phishing scams can be in your language as well as in any other language, which can lead you to trust it. Phishing emails are begining to look very convincing even using a logo and domain that are one letter different. Always confirm the validity of the email with the respondent if you have the slightest doubt. For example, if you receive an email from your bank, courier company or others, first read the email carefully, if there is a spelling mistake, this is a sign that the email is a phishing scam. Under no circumstances do not do anything in the email.

How to protect yourself from phishing?

Do not put your emails in plain text on your site for any reason. Don't sign for random things. Use the power of GDPR to remove your data from any website (for European users).

The right way to act is:

Do not use phone, email, connection and other phishing emails! Do not open the link inside, do not download attachments and do not upload photos in the email.
Search for a specific company in search engines such as DuckDuckGo, Google, Bing and other search engines. Find contacts and contact the company and explain that you received a strange email and confirm that it was sent by them.
Report an email by sending it to the company and mark it as phishing / spam
Forward it to and if possible Forward as attachment Please, enable JavaScript , APWG is the international coalition unifying the global response to cybercrime

By marking emails as Phishing / Spam, you are helping to automatically mark such emails as fraudulent emails in the future.

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