Saturday, March 31, 2007
Can you spot a scam email?
Test yourself with a phishing quiz, or view a Watchguard video dissection of one phishing email that impersonated US Bank.
I'd actually take a different angle and suggest not even trying to tell whether an email is just a scam to get your banking password. They're getting harder to recognize all the time. Assume the worst. If your bank wants you to do something, go to their site from your own bookmark, or heck, just phone them.
One more thing you can check, above and beyond what's on the video: if you're really on a "secure" connection, which just means one protected against eavesdroppers and with partial verification of who you're talking to, Firefox will turn the address bar yellow. Easier than checking for the difference between "http" and "https". You are using Firefox, right?
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I'd actually take a different angle and suggest not even trying to tell whether an email is just a scam to get your banking password. They're getting harder to recognize all the time. Assume the worst. If your bank wants you to do something, go to their site from your own bookmark, or heck, just phone them.
One more thing you can check, above and beyond what's on the video: if you're really on a "secure" connection, which just means one protected against eavesdroppers and with partial verification of who you're talking to, Firefox will turn the address bar yellow. Easier than checking for the difference between "http" and "https". You are using Firefox, right?
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