Phishing E-Mail IQ Test

[Cornholio 0]

According to data from e-mail security firm MailFrontier, only 4 percent of users can spot a phished e-mail 100 percent of the time. That's a very sobering thought as the holiday season is upon us and Americans flock online for their shopping needs.

http://survey.mailfrontier.com/survey/quiztest.html

I scored 9/10. I missed one because I tought it was a phish, but it was actually legitimate. Better safe than sorry, I guess.

What's your score?

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[NWFlyer 2]

8/10... I thought two were phishing when they were legitimate. Spotted all the phish, though.

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[Girlfalldown 0]

I scored 8/10 because I thought 2 legit ones were fake. I never use email to log into accounts. I just go right to the website directly and log in.

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[kelpdiver 2]

how can you answer phish or real based on a image of the mail message? The key is to check the hot linked urls like ebay.com and make sure that the address underneath the href tag matches.

[Girlfalldown 0]

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how can you answer phish or real based on a image of the mail message? The key is to check the hot linked urls like ebay.com and make sure that the address underneath the href tag matches.

Click each link. You can see them on the bottom.

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[Girlfalldown 0]

You can take that one seriously.

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[Girlfalldown 0]

That one too.

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[NWFlyer 2]

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how can you answer phish or real based on a image of the mail message? The key is to check the hot linked urls like ebay.com and make sure that the address underneath the href tag matches.

I didn't click a single link and still figured out all the ones that were phishing. (Granted, I also thought a couple others were probably phishing, too). I just thought about how things were phrased, and what the content was.

[NWFlyer 2]

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That one too.

You know you can edit out your sig line.

Seriously.

[davedlg 0]

10/10

Go me

[Superman32 0]

8/10

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[Cornholio 0]

dude, you are the phish master. Let me find Sebazz to give you your gift.

Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast!
Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool!
bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

[Cornholio 0]

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how can you answer phish or real based on a image of the mail message? The key is to check the hot linked urls like ebay.com and make sure that the address underneath the href tag matches.

Click each link. You can see them on the bottom.

Exactly, the link shows up at the bottom of the email window. Most of them are dead-giveaways, but some had me thinking and even web browsing to them to see if they were real.

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Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool!
bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

[unformed 0]

the way i see it, if t here's an important issue about my account they will call me or send me a letter.

that is, except for Paypal; however, every correspo0ndence coming from Paypal always has my name first thing in the email and if I log into my account they display an issues immediately.

Just don't trust anything that comes in your email and you'll be quite alright.

This ad space for sale.

[kelpdiver 2]

Chase was driving me crazy until I turned off all email from them. Most of their mail was borderline in appearance.

[sunshine 2]

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Let me find Sebazz to give you your gift.

Sebazz is giving out gifts? Hrm, now i'm temtped to take the test.

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[skysprite 0]

9/10

Not to bad. One was legit that I called a Phish.

~skysprite

[livendive 8]

I missed two of them, the Paypal Tsunami one and the Network Solutions one (erred on the safe side at least).

Blues,
Dave

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[davedlg 0]

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dude, you are the phish master. Let me find Sebazz to give you your gift.

Ooh Ooh I get a gift!! What did I win???

[deea 0]

10/10 Damn, I'm good!
Actually, I think these ones were somewhat obvious perhaps even without looking at the links. But I've seen ones where it's a lot trickier to tell if it's real or not. Of couse, the good ol' url test works, like kelpdiver pointed out.
I just got a very well written phishing e-mail pretending to be from Paypal a few days ago, and the first few links were actually good... it was only a "log in" link further down that was in fact a fraud...

[DownWind 0]

10/10. I guess my days in audit payed off.

[dixieskydiver 0]

I got 9/10, I changed the one I got wrong at the last second. Oh well, like you said better safe than sorry. I don't click on unsolicited links in emails, if I want the service I will navigate to their page myself and find it there.

Dixie
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