How to recognize Phishing emails
A Phishing e-Mail lands in your mailbox, you can recognize this is not always at first glance. But with a little caution and a little bit of attention, you can identify the Mails. Some of the features we provide you below in the gallery again in detail images.
- Pay attention to the sender. Although PayPal" or "Amazon is perhaps the "" as the sender in the Mail, but if you can view the Details, you will see the complete E-Mail address. This is not plausible, is already the first warning sign. However, the sender is also fake - that is, even if the e-mail address for example ends on amazon.com you can't go on the Safe side.
- Another indication of a Phishing email: If you have logged in, for example, in the case of PayPal with a Hotmail account, but the PayPal-Mail your t-online.de account is sent.
- Phishing emails are often sent out in foreign languages. Then you may already be skeptical. Is written in the E-Mail in German, is full but of spelling or grammar mistakes, it is just as often a sure sign of fraud.
- If you click on a Link in the Mail, pay attention to the URL of the accessed page. Often there are only minor spelling errors that do not fall to us directly in the eye. Also a look into the imprint of the web page often helps. In a extra practical tip we can tell you more of the characteristics of Phishing pages.
- If you need to get an E-Mail with a Link and your login information with password to enter, this is a sign that it is a Phishing e-Mail. Your Bank, PayPal or Amazon will never send you any E-Mails, in which they will be asked to confirm your information and passwords up.
- Almost all of the Shopping portals or banks, they will be addressed in an E-Mail personally. Dear ladies and gentlemen "or" dear user is in the Mail"," this is a sign that it is a fraudulent Mail.
- When you are prompted in an E-Mail to act urgently and you a period is known, caution is advised. Also, threats should be suspicious of, for example, "your credit card will be blocked if...".
Beware of current, new Phishing Scam
A blatant Phishing attempt makes just Gmail accounts the round. Here, you will receive an E-Mail with an apparent PDF as an attachment.
- If you want to click on the attachment, a Pop-Up window, the login prompts you for your Google data to enter, and then Google. In fact, this forwarding has to do but nothing with Google, but is a fake page of scammers that want to grab your Google credentials.
- Pay close attention to the notes in an E-Mail. It is not an attached file, but with an inserted image that gives the impression of an Annex, leave it alone.
- A fortiori, you should be suspicious, if you click on an apparent attachment, and then to an external page will be redirected. Here, scammers are at work.
In addition, practical tips will show you how you can fake Amazon page or real PayPal emails from the fake to distinguish.
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On the sender recognizable: This alleged Sparkassen-Mail was definitely sent by your Bank.
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On the sender recognizable: This alleged Sparkassen-Mail was definitely sent by your Bank.
More Phishing-signals: the English language subject (1), the impersonal salutation (2), as well as the special characters in the mail text (3).
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More Phishing-signals: the English language subject (1), the impersonal salutation (2), as well as the special characters in the mail text (3).
Also, the linked site is not definitely belongs to the savings Bank.
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Also, the linked site is not definitely belongs to the savings Bank.
