How to Recognize and Prevent Phishing Attempts

Phishing scams have been revolving around since the Internet was born, and they are not planning to stop any time soon. Nobody would want to fall prey to a phishing scam. Although, there is a good reason why such scams will continue. Cybercriminals make massive profits from these phishing attempts. Luckily, there are a lot of ways to avoid becoming a victim yourself.

Guidelines to Identify Phishing attempts

  • Think before you click!

    One way to determine a phishing attack is that it may be disguised to look like it has come from a legitimate company. Such emails may even ask you to fill in your details, but they won’t contain your name. It is not at all safe to click on links when you know you’re on an untrusted site. Clicking on links that are from random emails is not a smart move. You should hover the mouse over links that you are suspicious of.
  • Look for typos

    Another way to identify such emails is to look for grammatical errors, typos, misspellings or bad links to images in websites and emails.

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