Online Safety Advice: How to Recognize Phishing Emails?

May 18, 2009 by MyOrbit
Filed under: Banking, Business, Internet, Money & Finance 

Beware of phishing email scams, which typically come as emails that claim that they are from a company that you most likely do business with, such as your Bank, PayPal or eBay. They will tell you that you need to go to the site, and sign in for some security reason.

If you click the link in that email, you are taken to a site that appears to be the site that you do business with, but it isn’t. These people are trying to gain access to your account info with this email and fake website. Following are some three common signs:

  1. They won’t address you by your first name, because they do not know your first name. The site that you do business with will always address you by your name.
  2. If you hold your mouse cursor over the link in the email, you will see that it actually goes to a different URL than the one in the email. This is a sure sign that this is a fishing email.
  3. Banks and Money Transfer companies like PayPal never request you to sign in for security measures, through email, because they know that proper security can’t be implemented using email.

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