Avoiding email Phishing Scam

So here are the ways which will help to protect yourself:

1) You should never click on the links which you receive in your email instantly because they can be harmful too and this should be taken care with when you get a email from unknown people in your inbox.

Here are few examples of the emails they would use ie #-Link-Snipped-#, #-Link-Snipped-#, #-Link-Snipped-# and these scammers would even use some 3rd party services and email you along with a forged email ID, which means that they would send you a email from some services which dont verify their email and just send it as sender ID.

2) The Phishing emails you receive are generally built to steal your identity and your personal or financial information. Once you find a link within your email you need to mouse over on it and based on the browser you will find the linked URL in the status bar of your browser. The display shows Download option but its linking to some IP based URL which is a phished link.

Here are a few examples of the URL which would look like the original ones originating from Microsoft.com but would generally be like #-Link-Snipped-#, #-Link-Snipped-# & #-Link-Snipped-# etc and in a hurry while reading these emails you would not spell check these domain names and just visit them and enter your real information which would later be used by them.

3) Normally you would expect your friend to send you a email with a normal subject message, but generally many people get excited when they get messages like the following :
Verify your account
Limited Period Free Samples offer
Final Warning – Confirm your account within 48 hours
Click on the link to verify your account
Click on the link to gain access to your account
Enter your CC Information for Free Shipping
Reactivate your Email Account within 48 Hours


Whenever you receive any emails like these you would get excited to read it and click on the links within it without verifying the correct details, because of which the chances of getting into these scams are very high. The title does make a lot of difference and when the sender is trying to send you information about some urgent issue then the click rate or read rate increases.


Also most of the legit companies would not require you to enter your personal information or financial account details through email accounts hence never ever enter them.

Even if you have entered your details into one of these scams, you should now move away and make sure to avoid further conversations with the scammers because the more you talk with them, the personal information you would be sharing with them.