This, my friends, is what is called a phishing attempt. Phishing is a form of fraud in which a message sender attempts to trick the recipient into divulging important personal information like a password or bank account number, transferring money or installing malicious software. Usually the sender pretends to be a representative of a legitimate organization. When you click the link, it opens a page that looks similar to the actual log-in page. But when you input your credentials - BOOM - theyve got your log in information. And since most of the world uses the same password for all their accounts, the phishermen have struck gold. Check out the misspelled appel and then when you click through to the link provided in the email, read the URL. It is always safest to go directly to the URL rather than click a URL provided in an email.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 00:22:21 +0000
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