How to prevent phishing?

email is a form of online fraud. It attempts to obtain sensitive information of users, such as bank account number, password and credit card information, by sending fake emails to the target users. Incidents of huge losses caused by phishing frequently occur, because phishing looks like it comes from a credible company or organization, such as banks, social networks and shopping websites, so it is difficult to identify it. Therefore, we need to know how to identify and prevent phishing emails.

1. How to identify phishing emails: Check the email address of the sender. Before receiving an email, you should verify the email address of the sender to ensure that it comes from a trusted source.

2. Check the contents of the email: phishing emails usually contain false messages and requirements, such as asking you to provide personal information or account information, or clicking a link to update account information. Therefore, the content of the email should be carefully examined to ensure that there are no such false messages and requirements.

3. Check the security of links: phishing emails usually contain links to malicious websites to obtain personal information of users. Therefore, before clicking on a link, you should check the security of the link to ensure that it points to a credible website.

4. Check the security of attachments: phishing emails usually contain attachments with malicious codes, so you should check the security of attachments before downloading them. If you are not sure whether to download the attachment, you can confirm with the sender whether the email is true.

In normal times, we should always be vigilant, constantly learn and master network security knowledge, and have relevant network security awareness products, so that we can learn to correctly identify and deal with phishing, and learn what phishing is, how to identify phishing and how to deal with it correctly when encountering phishing. We can go and have a look to improve our vigilance and discrimination against phishing!