Don’t Take the Bait: Why You Should Learn Phishing and Scam Protection.

What is Phishing and Scamming? Simply Explained

Imagine that Phishing is a fishing line on the part of the cyber-criminal. These are messages which are sent out by a fake email, although sometimes it is a text or even a telephone call, saying it is being sent by a person or authority whom you have trusted, such as your own bank, a well-known service such as Amazon or by someone in your own IT department. The aim is easy, to deceive you so that you can take the bait.

Any kind of scheme that is meant to deceive you out of money, or any kind of information, is referred to as a Scam but phishing is the most prevalent form of these programs in the online space. It is a form of social engineering that is meant to get around your technology by playing on your trust.

 How to Spot the Phish: The Seven Red Flags

Phishing scams are increasingly more advanced, yet they never fail to include red flags that demonstrate the presence of a scammer. The most important defense against an expensive breach is to teach these signs to the employees and family members.

The Urgency Trap (Fear and Panic)

The fraudsters are asking you to take action and make a decision before considering. They make the subject lines to give an illusion of apoplexy; they make the subject lines look like: URGENT: Your Account Will Be Locked in 2 Hours! or “Caution: You are using an illegal access, use the button and prove it now!” Although legitimate organizations might require urgent action in some cases with the use of random emails threatening to lose money or cancel service provision, they cannot do it in many other cases.

Poor and Generic Greetings and Poor Writing

Your name and distinguished account details are used by most credible companies. Moreover, watch out against apparent spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes, or strangely expressed sentences. Although occasionally a genuine organization makes a typing mistake, having several mistakes can be a good indication that a scammer has picked up his pen and is operating in a hurry or his translation software is not so good.

The Lavish Naughty Home

The sender email address is always to be looked at and not the name only. A phishing email can claim to be sent by PayPal, but the email address will be something out of the ordinary like support@p4ypa1-billing.com. Lots of phishing emails contain small spelling errors (typosquatting) or bizarre domains to deceive a glancing eye.

Orders to Sensitive Information

No valid financial institution or service that provides reputable service will ever request you to respond to an email with your password, social security number or complete credit card number. In case an email requests you to join in with your login information, you must always visit the official site of the company on your own- do not use the link on suspicious email.

Unanticipated Attachments or Links

Did you get an invoice, software update, or there was a source you were not expecting to get a gift card? The next thing is never to open unsolicited attachments, particularly files with unusual extensions such as .zip or .exe. In the case of links, the hyperlink will display the actual destination address by having the mouse point over the link (on a desktop) and then the address will appear on the bottom of the screen. When there is no correspondence between the name of the company that is meant to be sending the email and the name of the company, it is a trap.

The Deal is Too Special to Be True

Scams often appeal to greed. Messages that say you won an enormous lottery, have inherited a fortune that lost a relative, or that you are due a huge, unexpected tax refund are to be regarded as instant warning bells.

Failure to Conformity with the Standard Procedures

When an email notification by your boss requests you to wire a significant amount of money to a new supplier as soon as possible, and this does not even qualify as a usual financial operation in your company, then STOP.

 WORIX IT SOLUTION: Your Phishing and Scam Protection Toolkit

WORIX IT SOLUTION offers a powerful type of services that would ensure business continuity and data protection by reducing the exposure of your organization to Phishing and Scams.

Core Cybersecurity Services:

• State of the art E-mail filter: This is your initial protection. They use advanced software, which analyses all incoming emails with a combination of AI and machine learning to remove phishing, malware, and spam before it reaches the inbox of an employee.
• DNS Level Protection: They even prevent the accidental access to the allowed malicious sites or spoofed domain by employees, even in case a phishing email successfully passes through.
• Security Awareness Training: With regular and interactive training and simulated phishing attacks, WORIX IT attentively trains your personnel to watch out and notice each of the aforementioned red flags. This creates a good human wall–the surest wall designed to be fought the next long time.
• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Implementation: MFA uses a second step (such as a code sent to an employee on a phone) even when this employee gives away his/her password on accident. This one-layered defense prevents more than 99.9 percent of all the credit theft attacks, which is a fundamental investment needed to protect data.
• 24/7 Threat Monitoring: Their team of professionals is on the lookout on your network due to indicators of a breach or compromise. In case of the successful attack, they would be able to react instantly to isolate the threat and reduce possible financial losses and the time loss.

Using the latest technological advances and the constant training of personnel, WORIX IT SOLUTION transforms the passive, risk-based approach to the establishment of defenses into the proactive, pro-reactive IT management strategy. There is no use waiting until the attack occurs and putting your digital environment under the protection of a professional MSP.