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Hello and welcome! In today’s video we explore and explain the provassive pervasive form of e-mail scam known as the Phising, in which criminal e-mailers seek to persuade individuals to part with personal information or money in exchange for promise to goods, services, prizes, money and more. Phishing E-mails might look like they come form some well known business. A financial institution for instance or an organization that gives away prizes, they are not. Often, if you examine Phishing e-mails, you will find that they show URLs that look like legitimate parts of the reported sender’ domain such as mail.eBay.com but if you hover your mouse over that URL you will something different to show up in the tool bar area at the lower left of your browser window. For example numerical web addresses are not that give away. Offers from companies you do not do business with, request form banks where you have no account or even request banks where you do have account. Prizes from contest you never entered are also tip offs that somebody is dangling bait in front of you, hoping you agreed or interest will overcome your common sense and laid you to share information that you probably know you should not with unknown third parties.
If you do follow a link to a site, you will see something like what showing in your screen. You notice the web address at the top of this page. 62.48.234.67. Using the IP tool location website, you can see where the IP addresses are registered and find out as we show that these address is in Portugal, rather than eBay’s data center in Texas. Make sure you turn on Phishing protection in your browser by doing the following.
In IE7 navigate to the tools menu and select the Phishing filter option. Your first options to check a single site, Microsoft will check the site’s address, against the centrally maintained database of known fishing sites. If the site is on the list, it will be clear to you. If it is not on the list, you can either proceed or report the site as a possible Phishing site which is the third option in the Phishing filter menu, and the option between those two is to turn on the Phishing filters, so that it is automatically set to check all sites to which you navigate.
We recommend to taking this step. You will less likely to be caught unaware.
Finally, you can set some costumed configurations by selecting Phishing filter settings. Scroll to near the bottom of the resulting window which is the internet options dialogue with the advance tab highlighted, this is where you can either disable the Phishing filter all together not recommended unless you have another similar filter in place. Turn off automatic website checking, also not recommended unless again you have another filter or turn automatic website checking. Internet Explorer 6 does not have a Phishing filter and this is one of the reasons you might want to upgrade.
For Firefox it is turned on by default. Go to tools, options, security and then bring up a test site the Firefox maintains here to check. If it is working, you will get a warning. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/it’s a trap.html.
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