Phishing and Email Threats
A scam sent to millions of people to attempting to get some people to reply.
What is phishing?
When someone fakes a caller ID to seem trustworthy.
What is caller-ID spoofing?
An unauthorised break-in your digital accounts.
What is a hack?
Someone uses the same password for multiple accounts
What is password reuse?
A popup comes claiming to be tech support, then asking for unnecessary information that can reveal passwords for accounts.
What is a tech support scam?
When the word after "@" in an email is unrelated to the company that sent it.
What is the most common way to spot a fake company email?
When a message is sent to someone, asking for many with various reasons such as parcel delivery delay.
What is smishing?
Someone attempts to gain your affection before asking for money.
What is catfishing?
Having passwords like this is dangerous because by guessing one password, someone can have access to all other accounts.
Why is password reuse dangerous?
This is a malicious software that makes you lose access to your own accounts, and asks for money for it back.
What is ransomware?
A specific group of people are targeted in a phishing scam.
What is spear-phishing?
Real companies never ask for wire transfers or gift card payments.
What sort of payment do scammers ask for?
Answering these questions will allow scammers to bypass 2-factor authentication.
Why should you not answer miscellaneous questions?
Public wifi has weak protection so hackers can access devices on the network easily.
Why should you avoid public wifi networks?
This allows scammers to have complete physical control over devices, including cursor movement.
By hovering over the link, you can see if it leads to a dangerous site.
How do you spot a trap hyperlink?
A second layer of online defense that asks for additional verification to protect you from scammers.
What is 2-factor authentication?
technology that allows someone to pretend to be someone else online, by mimicking their voices or how they look.
What is deepfake technology?
Using this software for your passwords may allow hackers to easily access multiple of your accounts, even when they don't have the same password.
Why can password managers be dangerous?
Software that installs itself in your devices, that mines illegal cryptocurrency for scammers, pinning charges on you.
What is a cryptojacker?