The phrase Electronic frauds or “Phishing” comes from English “fishing” (fishing), which is used to define the action of obtaining information through email for illegal purposes.
It has to do with the attempted theft of information electronically, many times posing as renowned or popular local or international financial entities.
Usually these messages are not sent to a particular person but to a large number of email accounts., For this reason, it is not recommended that any user deliver or forward emails with information such as their identification number., card number or code(pin).
How to recognize a "Phishing" email?
You may receive an unexpected email from any financial institution or other provider, but in reality it could be from someone external posing as a bank or some other service provider.
How to avoid this type of fraud?
Usually within this type of emails there are links to other pages that seem real, The important thing is not to click on those links unless it is from an address we trust or we are totally sure of its reputation..
Some phrases that can come as titles of these messages are: “safety and maintenance”, “account customization”, “your account has been frozen”, “we have to reconfirm your data”, “your credit card has been cancelled”, “You have a large sum of money in your account, please check your movements”, “update your data”.
some quick tips:
- Please do not open emails of dubious origin, much less click on the links that are attached or download the attached files, they can be deadly viruses for your computer.
- Protect your computer with antivirus programs.
- Avoid forwarding those “chain” emails, we mean is that sometimes other of our contacts(trustworthy) They send us messages where they ask to forward the same email to "n" number of people and in this way they collaborate to save a life, or the money is raised to operate on someone, most of these emails are invented by "spammers", They are people who are dedicated to collecting email addresses in a massive way to then build databases and sell them on the internet., don't fall into this trap.
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