🐡 Outsmart Online Outlaws! Recognize and Report Phishing.
OUTSMART online outlaws!
Phishing scams are online messages designed to look like they’re from a trusted source. We may open what we thought was a safe email, attachment, or image only to find ourselves exposed to malware or a scammer looking for our personal data. The good news is we can take precautions to protect our important data. Learn to recognize the signs and report phishing to protect devices and data.
🔎 Avoid Phishing Scams with Three Simple Tips
💡Avoid Phishing Scams with Three Simple Tips
Phishing scams are online messages designed to look like they’re from a trusted source. We may open what we thought was a safe email, attachment, or image only to find ourselves exposed to malware or a scammer looking for our personal data. The good news is we can take precautions to protect our important data. Learn to recognize the signs and report phishing to protect devices and data.
1. Recognize the common signs.
1. Urgent or emotionally appealing language.
2. Requests to send personal or financial information.
3. Unexpected attachments.
4. Untrusted shortened URLs.
5. Email addresses that do not match the supposed sender.
6. Poor writing/misspellings (less common).
2.Resist and report PHISHING SCAM.
Report suspicious message by using the “report scam” feature. If the message is designed to resemble an organization you trust, report the message by alerting the organization using their contact information found on their webpage.
3.Delete.
Delete the message. Don’t reply or click on any attachment or link, including any “unsubscribe” link. The unsubscribe button could also carry a link used for phishing. Just delete.
🚩 Report Phishing
💡If a message looks suspicious, it’s probably phishing.
But even if there’s a possibility it could be real, don’t click any link, attachment, or call any number. Look up another way to contact a company or person directly:
Go to a company’s website to find their contact information.
Call the individual at a known number and confirm whether they sent the message.
Some email platforms let you report phishing attempts. If you suspect an email is phishing for your information, it’s best to report it quickly. If the phishing message came to your work email, let your IT department know about the situation ASAP.
💡Here’s how to report a phish on Outlook and Gmail.
Avoid and report phishing emails - Gmail Help
✅ Tips on Phishing and resources you can use within your organization.
💡Avoiding phishing is one way to Secure Our World.
Copy the content above and send an email out to your organization to help them create strong passwords and use a password manager. The resources below are great for your company communication tool like Slack, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp groups. Keep them engaged by mixing up the content!
Here is a link to Week 3’s resources you could use and share within your organization!
