Don't be Fooled by These Phishing Emails #10

If you missed the previous articles, here is #9. In that article I linked to all of the previous examples. In 10 minutes you can learn from 9 examples of phishing attempts.

Why is learning this so important? The reality is that even if you have the best security in the world, a simple click can bypass it all. Many of today's cyber attacks are using "zero day" attacks. These are security exploits that are undocumented and haven't been patched yet. These exploits can be used to install a back door to your network on your computer.

For number 10 we use a common example, a fax from "eFax". There are a few things that stand out as to why this is a phishing attempt:

• The sender address says eFax but the email address is completely different
• When you hover you mouse over the "view fax" link it goes to a completely different site all together
• In this case they were lazy and didn't even include an eFax logo
• eFax does not require Microsoft Word

Here it is below

In this case the user was uncomfortable with this email and asked before clicking anything. This was the correct action because it was clearly a phishing attempt.

Be Safe

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