How to identify and stay safe from phishing scams

Phishing is a type of social engineering form of hacking a persons private data like passwords or credit card details or any other private data by faking the identity of any legitimate trustworthy company or individual.Phishing is a basic form of hacking,to steal any sensitive data and due to the less complexity involved in carrying out this hack, it is one of the most widely used method of stealing ones sensitive data. Hence this kind of attack is mainly carried out by noobs who try to steal any sensitive data and the people who are  less conscious about these kinds of  scam usually fall as a victim.

So it is well advised to properly know the kind of  phishing tricks used by these hackers in order to avoid it and hence stay safe.So here we try to create awareness about the phishing techniques used by the hackers and also educate you on how to stay safe from these kinds of security risks.

• Use a good email filter ,antivirus software and anti spyware to stay away from any phishing scams.Its advisable to use a internet browser that has phishing filters in it. eg:Firefox,chrome,Internet Explorer or Opera.
• Avoid mails or any links that say you have won some fabulous prizes or a lottery of any kind.These are mainly phishing scams.
• Visit the site by going through the address bar ,rather clicking on any shortcut link from untrusted websites.
• Check the site name when visiting a site.It may have the same design logo and interface as a genuine site but the site name may contain names with slight alterations,like in case of paypal.com..it may be papyal.com or paypal-verification.com etc
• The highest probability of phishing attacks are carried out through email’s.So be careful about the mails in your inbox that ask for your sensitive data.
• Use popular email services like Gmail or YahooMail that offer the best spam filters from any kind of  spam or phishing emails.
• Report any Phishing attack or any Spam as soon as possible to spam@uce.gov reportphishing@antiphishing.org ,so that the spam is contained as soon as possible and doesn’t spread across the internet.
• Check any website that don’t use https:// while gathering sensitive data. If it is not in https:// then double check if the site is legitimate or not.

Well these points will help you stay safe on the internet and prevent you from any type of phishing attacks that harm you in any way.
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