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Tips to help prevent phishing
Some helpful tips:
- Always be suspicious when you get an email with an urgent request for personal information - the aim is to panic you into action
- Don't use any link in an email - type in the website address in your browser directly or use your "Favorites" bookmark
- When entering personal or financial information on a website, always look for the 'lock' icon in your browser, indicating you're at a secure site. You can click on the "lock" icon to see credentials for the site (or check the 'Verisign' seal)
- Secure site web addresses also start with "https://" not "http://" - that "s" indicates the site is secured
Spotting fraudulent email - be suspicious of:
- Urgent appeals - to confirm, verify or authenticate personal information, account or transactions
- Requesting security information - legitimate financial insitutions do not ask you to verify information this way
- Too-good-to-be-true offers are often just that. The bad guys think up new schemes every day to part you from your hard-earned money. Don't help them out. Often they prey on your wishes to be a good, helpful citizen.
- Typos and errors - often mark fraudlent email or websites. Does the style or quality look 'off''?
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