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How to Prevent Phishing?
One of the most rampant cybercrime?s on the World Wide Web is phishing.
How to Prevent Phishing?
One of the most rampant cybercrime’s on the World Wide Web is phishing. In this the culprit’s main purpose is to obtain your personal information – like your user name, passwords or credit card details. This kind of crime is done by sending you the fake mails and then forcing or redirecting you to the websites that are not genuine. These websites are look so original that their URLs are also similar. It becomes difficult to ascertain the truth of these sites and a gullible customer may fall prey to the crime. If you follow these ways then you can avoid being caught in the phishing scams:
• Always check who is sending the email. This is perhaps the most effective way. If the email address does not belong to your regular service provider/bank, then it is highly avoidable. None of the banks will tell you to verify your account information. So any email which tells you to fill in your account information is completely fake. Just delete the mail at once.
• All the phishing mails contain an illegitimate “Click here” link. This link leads to websites which are governed by the criminal webmasters. Also when you will view at the domain name you will find that there is something wrong with the slashes which follow it. Any bank link will be encrypted with an https://. However, the link starts with http:// only, don’t even think of clicking on it.
• Many phishing emails come with a fake phone number and address. If this is the case match it with the address and the contact information that was provided originally to you by your bank. If it doesn’t match, the mail should be immediately discarded from your inbox.
• The social networking sites have lots of users and people exchange their day to day information over there. Your name is over there. The perpetrators take hold of that information and send the mail to you. If they know your name, don’t get alarmed. But if they know your account number, simply check it with the one that you have and also re-confirm it with the bank whether they have sent any mail to you.
Thus phishing protection becomes mandatory in today’s scenario. You should use a good password manager which does not display your personal data in case the site you have visited in not legitimate. There are some password managers available in the market which protects your login information by encrypting it. They guard you from any identity theft.
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