Friday, January 29, 2010

Opps! I catch a 'phishing' - Give Safety to Online Privacy

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Phishing can threaten your online privacy and phishing cases increase year by year. It is a very serious cyber crime in nowadays. We need to know the latest phishing cases to stay alert and increase Internet privacy knowledge to prevent yourself to become a phishing victim. Many ways to protect your information and avoid phishing scams are shared in previous post.


So, now you are alert to phishing scams. What else we could do to against phishing? The answer would be one easy step: report phishing! Then, why we should report? Nowadays, the cyber world is very scary and dangerous. You might do enough of prevention but to really secure your online privacy and your private data more, you need to report phishing to certain organizations and you even could help to stop phishing and avoid others to become victims of phishing!

If you received an anonymous email please do not nervous. You could keep your identity and personal information safe if you did not reply and click on the links which provided by the emails. After that, report spam or phishing. If you are a gmail user, you could watch the below video.

To Detect Phishing, GoogleAccountsHelp, Youtube [online]
Video Retrieved on 24th January 2010
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SyzRdeyDYk

Click on the 'report phishing' at the action bar which is located at the top of the email there. For other email service providers, you could report spam. The companies would help to investigate and block the particular phishing site or page. Furthermore, you could report phishing site to certain organizations such as http://www.antiphishing.org/

Your private information can be stolen through phishing scams! Please do prevention and report phishing! You could secure your personal information and help to protect other people's private information by wiping and stop phishing scams!



A real case happened on me! Recently, I received a lot phishing emails from maybank.com. I am user of the Maybank2u.com.my and I understand Maybank would not request my log in details by sending me emails. Furthermore, the sender maybank.com is not authorized therefore, I could spot and identity those emails are phishing scam and I just ignore them. In this case, users could always report the phishing link to the bank, you could find a report phishing form at the authentic website.


Always report phishing if you found it to secure your online privacy more and also build up a safer cyber world for everyone.

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