How To Spot And Report Phishing Emails

How To Spot And Report Phishing Emails

"Phishing" is the tech term for online scammers who try to lure you into revealing account names, numbers, passwords, and other confidential info, which they can use to steal money and/or your identity. Never click on a link in an email about security, or purchases you didn't make, that appears to be from a bank or online site where you have an account. Many, like the one below, are "phishing" emails.

Email Addresses For Forwarding Phishing Emails

from Tech Talk with Alan Perry on C-FAX 1070 Radio

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See if you can spot any clues that this is a scam, then turn the page...

Here are several clues that this is a scam phishing email:

1. The email address which its sent from (, circled in red) is an email provider in France, not Canada, and they left out `trust' in the name.

2. The email is sent to TD Canada Trust. They wouldn't email themselves! 3. `Below' (circled in blue) is misspelled. 4. `Fraudulent' (circled in green) is misspelled.

Also, if you were to mouse-over the link they want you to click on, you'd get a pop-up showing that you'd, in fact, be taken to a fake log-in page in France (.fr)!

If you get a phishing email like this, before you delete it, forward it to the security team at the company that it's supposedly from, so they can trace it and catch the senders. An email list for that, is attached.

Email Addresses For Forwarding Phishing Emails

from Tech Talk with Alan Perry on C-FAX 1070 Radio

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On this page and the next, you will see almost-identical iPad webpage screen-captures.

One is an authentic Google log-in page; the other is a phishing page created to steal your identity.

Can you spot the fake?

Email Addresses For Forwarding Phishing Emails

from Tech Talk with Alan Perry on C-FAX 1070 Radio

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Turn the page to find out which one is the fake.

Email Addresses For Forwarding Phishing Emails

from Tech Talk with Alan Perry on C-FAX 1070 Radio

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The second one is the fake. You can tell simply by looking at the address bar...

The real page will have a padlock before the the address; the phishing scam one will not. The name of the company or organization

will also be the web-address of the real one.

Email Addresses For Forwarding Phishing Emails

from Tech Talk with Alan Perry on C-FAX 1070 Radio

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