Year 5 Online Safety

Spam is the name we give to the email version of _______________.

• priority mail

• junk mail

• maekrting mail

• hot mail

Spams are sent to any email address that the sender has, and are never just for the person that receives it.

• True

• False

Spam is very annoying but is it not dangerous.

• True

• False

Look at this email. Could it be unsafe? What could happen?

• The links and download could contain a virus

• Filling in details on an online form like this gives your personal information to a stranger

• The links you can click could take you to a dangerous website

• All of the above

How to spot spam?

• A spam email will often look like it is from a company. Sometimes, it will look like it is from a company you trust

• The emails often come from a strange-looking or unknown email address

• The subject might say that you have won something or that there is an amazing deal for you

• All of the above

If you open an email and then realise it’s spam, you should not

• Delete it

• Reply to it or forward it

• Move it to junk mail

• Tell a trusted adult

To prevent more spam emails in the future, we should avoid putting our email address into websites or online forms unless we have to and try not to sign up to mailing lists.

• True

• False

To protect our account, we should use ______________ password.

• simple

• weak

• strong

• easy

There are some basic rules you can follow to create a really strong password, except...

• Use names or birthdays

• Include other characters like punctuation marks and symbols (@#$%^&)

• Include numbers (123)

• Include both lower-case (abc) and upper-case (ABC) letters.

Now that I have thought of a really strong password, I should make sure I use this for every account.

• True

• False