Lesson 1 - Email Scams and Phishing

A phishing email is one which:

• requests a payment for goods you have not received

• offers you products in which you may have no interest

• encourages you to click on a link to a fraudulent website

• contains abusive and threatening language

If you receive an email from a well-known company, but its name is misspelt in the sender's address, you should:

• click on the link in the email to check it's genuine

• reply, pointing out the error

• report it as a possible phishing scam

• forward the email to a friend to check

Someone's identity is stolen every 3 seconds as a result of cyber crime.

• True

• False

Which two of the following is a genuine type of email scam?

• Fishing

• Phishing

• Hook Emails

• Trojan Horse / Malware

Which two of the following is a genuine type of email scam?

• Fishing

• Virus-Generated Emails

• Fraudulent Requests for money

• PowerPoint images

For a phishing email to be most successful, it must get you to do what?

• Read it

• Click on a link to take you to the scammers website

• Reply to it

• Delete it

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

• Forward the message to her friends to see if they think it's a scam too.
• Reply and ask the sender not to send more mail.
• 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.

• Plagiarizing
• Skimming
• Phishing
• Identity Theft

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Select the Phishing Schemes that apply to the following email:
From:  [e-mail]
Subject:  Account Status
Attention US Bank Customer,
Due to a recent security check on your account, we require you to confirm your details.  Failure to do so within 24 hours will lead to account suspension.  Sorry for the inconveenince.
Click here to confirm your account

Regards,
US Bank Online Customer Service
This email has been sent by US Bank.
                                                         

• Generic greeting & Link to email
• Sense of urgency & Spelling errors
• Need to verify account info
• ALL of the previous choices are in the email.

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If you receive an email from someone you don't know that has a ***CLICK HERE*** link. What do you do.

• Click the link

• Click the link and then send it to your friends

• Delete it straight away.