Phishing

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What is phishing?

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scams through emails

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What is suspicious about this email?

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Generic greeting, URL does not match

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Is this site authentic?

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No

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Sara finds a message on her phone that she thinks might be a scam. She should:

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Delete the message.

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When people send you phony emails, pop-up messages, social media messages, texts, calls, or links to fake websites in order to hook you into giving out your personal and financial information.

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Phishing

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Teens are some of the most frequent targets of identity theft and other scams. Why?

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Identity thieves look for “clean” Social Security numbers that haven’t yet been used to get credit.

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Pretending to be banks, the IRS or some other organization and sending you an email or a letter (or even make a phone call) asking for personal information is called

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Phishing

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They may get into your computer or another computer system, including schools, credit card companies, and other places maintaining personal information.

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Hacking

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To prevent identity theft use one of these on credit card, bank and cell phone accounts.

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Password

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Never give this out over the phone, through email or on the Internet.

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Personal Information