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How to Recognize When an Attacker Is Phishing for Your Information?

Phishing started in the form of harmful links (malware) sent to individuals through mass emails.

Over the years, phishing attacks have improved to look as convincing as possible.

How to know if a phishing attack is targeting you?

How do I identify a phishing email? How do I recognize and avoid phishing sites? How can I prevent a phishing attack?

Relax!

The best way to protect yourself from any cyber crime is through learning about the most common methods used by cybercriminals.

Common Techniques Used in Phishing Scams:

Common Techniques Used in Phishing Scams:

Unknown sender or unusual timing of the message

Known sender, but unusual content of the message

Hyperlinks: To check the authenticity of the link, hover your mouse on the link to show the actual HTTP// or HTTPS// address of the website.

Email attachments: The email has an attachment that would need to be opened

Attractive offers to lure you into clicking on a link

Have generic information or use a generic greeting

Need for urgent action through a link sent by email or message

Create a sense of panic

Poor spellings

Points to remember:

Points to remember:

Here are some key takeaways from this section that you should remember.

Over the years, the kind of phishing attacks has diversified and upgraded to look as convincing as possible.
To protect yourself from any cyber-attack, learn about the most common methods used by cybercriminals.

Frauds may be trying hard to trick you, but you can definitely try harder. Learn more about best practices to protect yourself from phishing attacks.

Learn more about how you can secure yourself against such frauds