How To Identify A Phishing Email

by Stephen M. Fells on October 29, 2009

Stephen M. FellsEarlier today I received a simple but well designed phishing email allegedly from Facebook. I subsequently received half a dozen identical emails to different email addresses and so want to share some important information that will help you identify a phishing attempt.

Wikipedia describe phishing as:

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.

I hope the following brief video helps protect you. To see the video in full screen HD click on the icon located between the volume icon and the ’screenr’ logo (it looks like a square with a dot in the middle).

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