Manage your e-mails effectively to avoid being PHISHED

PHISHING IS PROVIDING INFORMATION TO A SPOOF WEB SITE. The target of the sender is emails and the goal is to capture the personal information and bank account information and credit card number information.

the definition about PHISHING IS "Sending e-mails to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft".

We receive so many mails which are not connected to us or we have not been asked to send email or we may unnoticingly or out of curiosity accept for sending newsletter to our email address. Sometimes, for that matter many a time, we get bored even to look at the emails which will have no relevance and simply delete the emails recieved.

Once a while, we attract to the sentenses, words and information provided by the email and click the email for further probing what exactly the email content is. We find some important information and further clicks and when we find the matter was interesting we provide the information asked by the site. Here, we get a false information or a duplicate web site of the original leading and reputed site.

We think that the information about our personal or credit card details or bank account number and social security details, etc is given to the legitimate organisation site but, the web site which we are providing the information is bogus, illegal and capture the details given by us from the directions recieved from the bogus web site, just because we have clicked the email information in the email recieved by us.

Observe these elements to avoid Phishing e-mails

a. The address in the From field. This information can be changed from any e-mail client.
b. The logos or images in the recieved email are taken from the web site of the legitimate company.
c. when the phishing email is recieved,the links appearing in the email text, doesn't point out the legitimate company web site URL.

d. Logos that are not an exact match to the company's logo, spelling errors, percentage signs followed by numbers or @ signs within the hyperlink, random names or e-mail addresses in the body of the text, or even e-mail headers which have nothing to do with the company mentioned in the e-mail.

To avoid get phished, first visit the site that you received by email, and ensure with the company whether such email was sent. Also inform the company about the phishing so that the company will take care and consolidate the clientile by further providing assured and secured web site of their company.

This way you can add another feather in your cap by recieving best compliments from the company.