Online Shopping Safety Tips This holiday season, many of us will be surfing for the best deals, but cyber Grinches also are online trying to steal your cash. Those monster deals might just stink, stank,…
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Whaling Phishing Scams You get an email from your “boss” (or someone else you know) with the subject “Got a moment” asking “Are you available?” You want to help, and reply asking what you can…
Tax, CRA, and Service Canada Scams Especially during tax season, scammers posing as Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) or Service Canada agents may try to steal your personal information or money. They do this using phone…
Phishing Email Examples Message From HR This email has these red flags: Poorly written with punctuation errors Unfamiliar sender email address A link to a strange URL Final Warning from IT This email has these…
Phishing Login Form Examples Example 1 Although this login page may look like the Mount’s Office 365 login page, you can see that: It does not use https, rather it uses http which is insecure…
Phishing What Is Phishing? Phishing is when a criminal uses emails, web forms, and viruses to: Trick you into revealing your password or other personal information. Trick you into installing a virus. These criminals may…
Spear Phishing When a hacker tries to phish a specific individual, it is called “spear phishing”, targeted phishing. These spear phishing emails can be harder to detect than mass phishing emails. They can: Appear to…
—–Original Message—– From: “Infodesk Account 2” <<U>universityhelpdisk@fdu.edu>To: Helpdesk1@msvu.caDate: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:16:22 +0100 (WAT)Subject: CONFIRM YOUR MSVU EMAIL ACCOUNT TO AVIOD CLOSURE Please Submit Your e-mail account information for update of your account. DEAR…