Phishing Emails
What is phishing?
From wikipedia.com:
"In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication."
Please note that MegaGate Broadband employees will never ask for sensitive information over email.
How do I protect myself?
Ask yourself the following questions when looking at suspicious email:
- Is the offer too good to be true?
- Is the email asking for personal information about an account, service, or other online related activity?
- Do you recognize the sender's email address or name?
- Does the email threaten to disable a service if you don't respond?
Example of Phishing Email
The following was reported to MegaGate from one of our users. This is a real email:
Dear Email Account Owner,
This message is from microsoft email maintenance messaging
center to all Webmail/email account owners.We are currently
upgrading our data base and e-mail account center.We are
deleting all un_used email account to create more space for
new accounts.
To prevent your account from closing you will have to
update it below so that we will know that it's a present
used account.
CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW
Email Username :
EMAIL Password :
Date of Birth :
Country or Territory :
send all information account section
microsoftword@**REMOVED**
Warning Code:VX2G99AAJ
Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her
account within Seven days of receiving this warning will
lose his or her account permanently.
Thank you for using Microsoft!
Regards
WEBMAIL ADMINISTRATOR.
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