what to look out for to prevent physhing emails

what to look out for to prevent physhing emails

1. greeting

   • The physhers dont know your name, so the greeting is personalaised

2. the senders address

   • is often a variation of a genuine address
   • but dont only rely on the address as it may be genuine you can maybe check on any map system

3. forged link

   • the link looks genuine but it may not link to the website given. roll your mouse over it to check

4. request for personnel infomation

   • genuine organizations will never ask you too provide personel infomation via email

5. sense of urgency

   • criminals try to persuade you that something bad will happen if you dont act fast
   • but remember these are empty threats so the more outragous the threat the more likely to be fake
   • the crimanals want money quickly so they make threats

6. poor spelling and grammer

   • generally physhers arent good proof readers and companies will usually not have spelling errors
   • real companies will ususally have someone paid to proof check.

7. Physhing is when a criminal is trying to find out personnel infomation out about you.

8. if u find out it is a sacm report it and delete it and tell an trusted adult

9. If you get an fishing email tell someone: an adult, an friend. the company via the report button jus anyone you trust

   • If u get an email from unknown dont click because you dont know where it leads you and definitely dont reply