Phishing

Marigold123

Flyingvet wrote:

NEVER CLICK A LINK IN AN EMAIL - Then you won't get stung.

Absolutely! And I never do.

It seems that many financial organisations won't even ask you to click an email link these days. They just say, visit our site and click on 'your account', or similar.

speckyhen

Thanks for that. Just did the survey and got 90% right.
Who's a clever girl then?! :T

matty_c608

Got 100% First time. That test sure is useful, more people ought to see it! I bet money savers have been caught out with these scams!

glosman555

If you go to this website and download Spoofstick it puts the address of the website you are visiting on a toolbar;if it is not the web address you thought it was then you can be more careful about the info you give.
http://www.corestreet.com/spoofstick/

pro_bono

Chaps & Chapesses,
Could you advise me re a problem that we have discovered at home, we have a Dell dimension 8200 3 yrs old with a 120gb hard drive. This (according to my son) has been making clicking noises for the past couple of days, and last night crashed completely!
Dell Tech Support (India) tell me that I need a new hard drive and that all info that it contained is lost.
Not being a Techie, plaese can anyone advise on most cost effective way forward??

Regards

NellyLock

pro_bono wrote:

Chaps & Chapesses,
Could you advise me re a problem that we have discovered at home, we have a Dell dimension 8200 3 yrs old with a 120gb hard drive. This (according to my son) has been making clicking noises for the past couple of days, and last night crashed completely!
Dell Tech Support (India) tell me that I need a new hard drive and that all info that it contained is lost.
Not being a Techie, plaese can anyone advise on most cost effective way forward??

Regards

you may want to start your own new thread for this? i would answer here but might as well start as you mean to go on...

pro_bono

Opps Sorry!!

squeaky

80% here, and I'm glad to say that erred on the side of caution. Ie the ones I got wrong were where I called legitimate ones fraudulent.

Seems to me that if my bank wants me to change any details they won't send me an email they'll wait until the next time I log on to my account as per normal and then ask me to change stuff.

Dormouse

Got 90% Thanks Calley, very useful for a non-techie like me

jonifen

NellyLock wrote:

whoop whoop 100% just look at the hover over ip in the bottom, this kinda obv then...
1. if its has https:// and same domain as comp sending then its going to be them
2. if it is a subdomain of the proper company then it could be them

if its a random domain or an ip address then its bound to be a fraud and note the one clever one i think was barclays.biz or something like that...kinda stuck out but if unsure visit barclays.biz and see whats there (if barclays have a .com address though they really wouldnt "push" there biz one)

Indeed... I did the quiz then read people's replies and I (like NellyLock above) got 100% for doing the same thing - checking what address is shown at the bottom of the email as this is what the true link is - not what they have said it to be on the actual email.

My partner gets a load of phishing emails from "Paypal" (or should I say, someone trying to fool us into thinking they are paypal) - but hover over the link and the truth comes out. I got one a while back from "Natwest" (again, someone trying to be natwest)... I had the last laugh - I dont even bank with Natwest