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Phishing attempts

Phishers are known for sending volumes of emails soliciting money from their targets or some sensitive information. Due to their number, it is only a few that successfully get to cause their targets to send the money or information that they request. There is another breed of phishing mails that tend to be more successful. These are phishing emails that are tailored to the type of people that are intended to receive them. They are used in a phishing attack type referred to as spear phishing. There are some characteristics that may help one to identify phishing emails. These are:

• Messaging explaining a problem: Some social engineering attempts using phishing normally try to trap their targets with messages requiring them ...