Email - Phishing (from the SANS Security YouTube)

Phishing is an effort to trick you into doing something using:

• email or text messaging

• just email

• just text messaging

• paper flyers

Answer explanation

When someone is PHISHING - You are the fish! They are trying to TRICK you.

Criminals sending phishing attacks send thousands of them at a time, because: (choose more than one)

• they don't know who they'll catch

• the more emails, the better the chances of fooling someone

• they are targeting anyone who "bites"

• they know who you are and are after you specially

Answer explanation

Phishing is like fishing, but with THOUSANDS of hooks! They don't know who will respond and get caught!

Phishing attacks often have a sense of

(choose more than one):

• URGENCY

• RELAXEDNESS

• CURIOSITY

• LAZINESS

Answer explanation

Phishing messages often seem URGENT, to try to get you to do something without thinking about it too much. If you did think about it, you might realise it's a trick! They might also use your CURIOSITY to fool you.

When you see a message from someone you don't know, you should reply or click on their link right away.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

FALSE. DON'T BE FOOLED! ALWAYS look closer! Is that their real email address? Do they really know you?

A phishing message may often have (choose more than one):

• an urgent request

• a request for personal information

• very general greetings or language (they don't know much about you)

• lots of personal detail about you

• strong emotions

Answer explanation

Phishers usually don't know much about you. They just have your email address or phone number and are going to try to steal what they can by fooling you!

A phishing email may "spoof" or pretend to be a bank or a famous person. One way to check is by comparing their:

• email address with their Reply To: address

• email address with your email address

• there is no way to tell

• email address and their name

Answer explanation

Fake links. A link in an email might not be what it looks like. You can SAFELY tell what it really does by:

• hovering the mouse pointer over the link & reading the popup

• asking the sender

• clicking on the link

• copying the link

Answer explanation

The tooltip that pops up will tell you where the link really goes to! Things are not always what they seem.

You should be careful with information you put in messages sent by Reply All or Group Text functions because:

• you know who it's going to

• you shouldn't be careful

• you might be giving info to people you don't know

• some people get annoyed at too many emails

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