Beware of Phishing Email

Phishing emails often similar to original hyperlink (URL) and have genuine URL you are visiting. To check the actual URL Simply move your mouse over the link and look at the display address. Is this the website address of the website who seems to be sending the e-mail? If not, it’s clearly a phishing e-mail.

You need to know how to keep yourself and enterprise safe from phishing frauds and identity theft. The only way to do this is to learn to recognize a harmful e-mail by paying attention.

• Urgency: If an email provides a strict deadline for performing an action – be suspicious. Phishing emails will try to confuse
  recipients by creating a sense of urgency.
• Fear: Scaring recipients is common tactic in phishing emails. Emails that threaten you with negative consequences or
  punishment should be treated with suspicion.
• Greed: Phishing emails often dangle a financial reward of some kind if you click a link or enter login information. If an email
  offers you something that seems too good to be true, it is probably is.
• Curiosity: People are naturally curious, and phishers take advantage of this by sending emails that promise to show us
  something exciting or forbidden.
• Sender Address
  If the address doesn’t match the sender name, be suspicious of the entire email.

Beware of these elements

• Links
  Roll your mouse pointer over the link and see if what pops up matches what’s in the email, if they don’t match, don’t click.
• Log-in Pages
  Spear phishers will often forge login pages to look exactly like the real thing in order to steal your credentials.
• Attachments
  When an attachment comes from someone you don’t know or if you weren’t expecting the file, make sure it’s legitimate
  before opening it