Clues to Spot Phishing Emails - Awareness
Mubarak AlHadadi
Founder and CEO of #24ieye and Managing Director of #Areena #Rasd Media Qatar. Oman and Qatar
This real incident happened in the year 2016 – ‘Three employees at the University of Kansas failed to receive their recent paychecks, only later they realized they were deceived by the fraudsters.’
One day, the employees at the University of Kansas received an e-mail, asking them to update their payroll information. The scammers had used this information to change the account numbers of the direct deposits in the university’s payroll system. Five employees responded to the phishing e-mail and three of them had their pay affected.
According to a report by Verizon, Phishing is the top delivery vehicle for ransomware and other malware. It is because, the attackers are good at crafting convincing messages that influences the users to click on the link.
You get hundreds of Phishing emails into inbox year-round, but how would you spot on if it is a Phishing email? Here are a few tips to identify the ‘fishy’ email and escape the attack. Learn more https://goo.gl/A84Nvr
Advisor & Chief Strategy Officer
6 年?? from team of
Financial Crime Risk specialist. Author "SAFE WORD: NO" "How not to be a money launderer", "Understanding Suspicion in Financial Crime", "Cleaning up the 'Net", "Trade Based Financial Crime". Consult: Teach: Inform.
6 年The most useful tip is brutal but effective: set all e-mail systems to reject HTML mail (if possible) and to allow users to open mail in plain-text only, and set filters to reject and delete any mail that says "to view this email in a web page, click here" and similar wording and never, ever to click on an abbreviated link to e.g. goo.gl because there is absolutely no telling what lies behind it.