What is Phishing?
It’s an e-mail sent to you and hundreds of thousands of others with a message that tries to trick you into revealing sensitive personal information, such as passwords, banking information, your Social Security number, your mother’s maiden name, your date of birth and more. They to hijack your assets, steal your identity or even open credit card accounts in your name.
The plea in the e-mail may try to warn you of danger, offer you something for free or entice you with sexy or nude photos or videos of famous people.
Don’t Click the link or even open the mail, if you do not know the sender.
How to Spot Phishing Mail.
Check the spelling
Scammers are notorious for their lack of basic spelling and grammar skills. Look for misspelled words and incomplete or awkwardly written sentences.
Who signed it?
If it’s a legitimate e-mail from a business, it will be signed with a person’s name and contact information, but if it signs off with something vague, such as “Customer Support,” be wary.
Screaming in CAPS.
Be especially aware of e-mails that try to get your attention by using all capital letters, especially in the subject line.
The e-mail has an executable attachment
Never download an attachment unless you are sure it’s legitimate.
The e-mail has a link to a Web site
Don’t ever provide this information if you got on the site by clicking a link in an e-mail.
Do nor respond to a scam email
Have WOT to warn you of the sites.
Have Antivirus Soft ware installed,Norton, McAfee, Avasti, AVG,Kaspersky,Avira, ESET.