Friday, February 19, 2010

Podcast I: Phishing Threatens Your Online Privacy?

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Translation Script

Hello everyone, today the topic that I am going to discuss is how phishing threatens your online privacy?

In this technology generation, Internet becomes dangerous and threatening. All of us need to be alert and against all the possible threats when we use Internet. Everyone also need to strengthen their Internet knowledge to protect themselves from become the victims of phishing.

So, I'm here to explain what phishing is.

Phishing is a technique that hackers, fraudsters request to obtain other people's personal information such as credit cards numbers, password.

Many Internet users received anonymous emails that state they have problem to log in to the system and request them to go to the provided link and insert their log in ID and password. The provided link could be fake and it controls by the hacker or fraudster at the other server. Once you enter your log in details, fraudster might obtain those information and hack into your account. If more serious, you might lose money!

Online users can protect your online information by checking a phishing email then you would not become a phishing victim. Please be reminded, bank will never ask you to confirm your account details by an emails. So, you also need to beware of other phishing emails which look like send by other possible companies that you trust. We conclude three ways to find out a phishing email.

Step 1: Check your name.
Your name will not appear in the emails. Usually fraudsters write" Dear Valued Customer" because the same email sends to many people. Therefore, it is not trustable.

Step 2: Check for the spelling mistake.
Phishing emails use the real logo and the name of the company but it is not authentic if you found spelling mistake in content or title of the email. That must be a phishing email.

Step 3: Look at the URL links attach in the emails.
If the emails ask you to click on the provided, never click it and you check the link whether is look different from the original web site URL. This anonymous link hosts by the fraudsters, it just looks like similar to the original web site URL if you are not aware of it.

If you have received phishing email, don't panic. Please don't reply and click on anything, because it is phishing scams! You could be safe from phishing and protect your online information easily.

Thank You.





Glossary

Internet = 互联网
Phishing = 网络钓鱼
Fraudster = 行骗者
URL (Universal Resource Locater) = 网址

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