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What are Phishing Emails and Should I be Concerned?

April 26, 2017concerned emails phishing

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What are Phishing Emails and Should I be Concerned?

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Another tip to prevent yourself being conned via emails is to keep your email unknown to any individual. Sounds odd? Scammers, phishers, need your email in order to send you email. For example, your registered with PayPal and if you use username@gmail.com for email and myname@gmail.com for money and money information purposes. You would have a high chance of getting a phished email to username@gmail.com. NO SITE WILL EVER ASK YOU TO CHECK YOUR DETAILS. When you join a program such as PayPal, bookmark the link, never click links inside emails. Links in emails may give you an exact looking webpage but as soon you attempt to log in, you will likely to get log in errors, it is actually an attempt to make you think the site is still working, but in reality the phishers got your username and password and will immediately clean your account out. Be careful, the world has many leeches. Prevention is the best cure. Be wise!