How To Spot Fake Phishing Emails and Report Them
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Learn how to spot phishing tactics and avoid getting robbed online. Phishing is a technique used by cybercriminals to get people to give them personal information in order to gain access to their victim’s money. This often takes the form of emails and websites pretending to be from a trusted source such as a bank, relative, or website in order to get the person to hand over passwords, social security numbers or bank account information willingly.
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How To Spot Fake Phishing Emails and Report Them
- 1. How to Spot Fake Phishing Emails and Report Them Online By Jon Loyd Wizards Computer Repair Angier NC http://wizardscomputer.com
- 2. Over 300 million phishing emails are sent every day
- 3. Fishing costs users $2,800,000,000.00 Per year The cost of 750,000 bulk emails is roughly $1,000.00 If only 1% of people get scammed for $100.00, the scammer makes $749,000.00
- 4. How To Spot A Phishing Scam… No reputable company will ask for your personal information via email
- 5. Be suspicious of password resets that you didn’t request
- 6. Phishing scams often come from fake domain names (Notice the small changes) Real Domains: www.craigslist.com support@yahoo-inc.com Fake Domains: www.craigslsit.com support_staff@yahoo.com craigslist.com vs. craiglsit.com yahoo-inc.com vs yahoo.com
- 7. Spelling and grammar errors are a sure sign of phishing
- 8. Blurry / bad graphics Spot a phishing scam…
- 9. Don’t open attachments from unknown sources Unknown attachments are one of the primary means by which Cryptolocker spreads
- 10. Pay attention to your browser’s built in phishing filter!
- 11. Urgent Emails from unknown senders often mean someone is phishing for your money
- 12. Where to Report Online Phishing U.S.A. https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#crnt&panel1-1 Canada: http://www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca/english/reportit_howtoreportfraud.html U.K Britain http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/
- 13. References • http://blog.returnpath.com/blog/lauren-soares/10-tips-on-how-to- identify-a-phishing-or-spoofing-email • https://safety.yahoo.com/Security/PHISHING-SITE.html • http://blog.hotspotshield.com/2013/08/15/common-phishing- scams/ • http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/phishing- symptoms.aspx • https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#crnt&panel1-1 • http://www.antifraudcentre- centreantifraude.ca/english/reportit_howtoreportfraud.html • http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/ • http://www.karelia.com/mac_indie_marketing/comparison-bulk- email-marketing.html • http://www.brandprotect.com/catching-a-phish.html
- 14. Image References • https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3205/3005591006_8b62706d43.jpg • http://en.support.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/02-password- reset.png?w=688 • http://www.mailscanner.info/images/phishingcartoon.gif • https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2556/4111850808_a4ba8957ff.jpg • https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8207/8266508814_a6257b20b8_b.jpg • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Google_favi con.png • https://openclipart.org/image/300px/svg_to_png/36733/software- update-urgent.png • http://blog.codinghorror.com/content/images/uploads/2007/05/6a 0120a85dcdae970b0128776ffcaf970c-pi.png • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Google_favi con.png
Editor's Notes
- How to Spot Fake Phishing Emails and Report Them Online Phishing is a technique used by cybercriminals to get people to give them personal information in order to gain access to their victim’s money. This often takes the form of emails and websites pretending to be from a trusted source such as a bank, relative, or website in order to get the person to hand over passwords, social security numbers or bank account information willingly. This information will be used by the criminal later to make withdrawals from the victim’s bank accounts, open new credit cards in the victim’s name or gain access to their other personal accounts.
- Almost 300 million phishing emails are sent every day One phishing email for every man woman and child in the US is sent every day. Since the United States is one of the richest countries in the world, it is a good bet that many of those emails target US citizens. With that many, the odds are good that you have seen at least one phishing scam pass through your inbox this year are guaranteed.
- Phishing is cheap buy it costs a lot The cost to send 750,000 bulk email messages is $1000.00 if it is done through reputable sources. Other sites put the cost even lower. If only 1% of people are scammed for $100 the scammer $749,000. Scammers send millions of phishing emails in hopes of getting bites and often time the prices are much higher. The total cost of phishing globally in 2.8 billion dollars.
- Remember no reputable company will ask for personal information via email This is simple enough. When you bank says that they will never ask for your personal information via email, they mean that they will never send you an email asking for your personal information. Other forms of this attack include unsolicited financial services such as credit card protection scams.
- Be suspicious of password resets that you didn’t request Everyone has lost a password from time to time and when it needs to be reset, you usually have to enter your email address into a form and have a password reset email sent to you. But what happens when you get a password reset email that you never asked for? It is most likely a scam. If you didn’t ask for it, don’t open it.
- Check the domain name Years ago when I would post on Craigslist.com, within half an hour of posting I would receive an email stating that I needed to verify my information by logging into my craigslist account again. The link in the email would always take me to different Comcast personal webpage designed to look exactly like a craigslist login screen. The only indictor that it was a fake was the web address that clearly didn’t start with www.craigslist.com.
- Spelling errors, grammar errors People who speak English can have a hard time with the language; making spelling errors and grammar mistakes from time to time. It is a tough language but even as bad as English speakers are, it is still easy to spot a phishing email from a foreign country. Often times they are missing words, have numerous misspelled words, have bad colloquialisms, and don’t really to get the verb tenses right.
- Slightly off logos and graphics or no graphics at all Most major companies start with huge high resolution images and logos, but scale them down to size so they are crisp and clear. Phishers often have to use smaller scaled down images and logos stolen from websites, and scale them up to make them work. This often leads to blurry and pixelated images to don’t look professional at all.
- Attachments from unknown sources When you receive a legitimate attachment, you often have reasons to believe that it is a legitimate attachment such as when you ask someone to send you a file via email of they call and say they are sending a file via email. When you se messages from unknown parties asking you to open an attachment that you never expected, this should be the red flag that sets off your radar. There are so many more secure ways of sending and sharing files today that email attachments are the last resort of people who do not know you.
- Use a phishing detector Most web browsers have a built in phishing detector that warn you when you are about to enter a dangerous website. Listen to it and hit the back button.
- Urgent responses “This is urgent, please respond immediately.” These are the tactics of someone who is trying to get you to act before you think. Don’t fall for them.
- United States: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#crnt&panel1-1 Canada: http://www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca/english/reportit_howtoreportfraud.html U.K. http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/