{"id":873,"date":"2015-03-19T08:35:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T13:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/?p=873"},"modified":"2018-07-23T09:49:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T14:49:52","slug":"learn-how-phishing-works-and-how-to-avoid-becoming-a-victim-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/2015\/03\/learn-how-phishing-works-and-how-to-avoid-becoming-a-victim-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn how Phishing Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phishing is one of the modern demons of the internet. Phishing includes a range of activities aimed at duping you to reveal sensitive information including your usernames, passwords and banking and credit card information. The success of phishing depends on how much trust the phishing entity is able to generate within you. So, it is always important that you are aware of this scam because you can fall a victim before you know it.<\/em><\/p>\n

How is phishing done?<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It can be done in different ways. You may receive a mail from your bank where you are asked to click on a link to update your information. There is some fear factor used here. So, for instance, the email may say that your personal information has been lost by the bank and they need to update it. When you visit the linked page, you are asked to type in information and submit. You wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even know that the email and the linked page are fake and both have been designed according to communication designs of your bank. Unknowingly, you would have now given all the information to a scam runner.<\/p>\n

How can phishing affect you?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>Phishing can affect you in many ways. All your personal details can be revealed to unsavory elements and they could do anything they wish with it. All your debit and credit card information can get revealed to phishing scam artists and you may see money being debited from your account or your credit card is used for making purchases.<\/p>\n

How to stay safe from phishing?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>There are easy ways to avoid this attacks. When your bank sends you an email about the threats of it, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ignore it. These emails contain information on the different ways you can be approached for phishing. So, be careful when you receive emails from unknown sources. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be frightened even when the email has some potentially threatening news.<\/p>\n

Never open email attachments from unknown sources. These attachments could be viruses that can collect information stored in your PC. And, make sure that you keep checking your account so that any suspect transaction can be seen and flagged immediately. Only enter financial information in secure bank web pages. Look for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153https\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the URLs of these pages.<\/p>\n

Never reveal your card information like CVV and your debit or credit card ATM password to anyone. Your bank will never ask for such information.<\/p>\n

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Phishing is one of the modern demons of the internet. Phishing includes a range of activities aimed at duping you to reveal sensitive information including your usernames, passwords and banking and credit card information. The success of phishing depends on how much trust the phishing entity is able to generate within you. So, it is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[123,17,112,319,22,18],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","category-it-support","tag-cloud","tag-dedicated-server","tag-hosting","tag-phishing","tag-server","tag-web-hosting","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/2444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}