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WARNING: ¿what is phishing, how does it relate to privacy and how to avoid it?
Phishing is a technique used by hackers impersonating a trusted person, company or service to manipulate it and make it perform actions in which it shares confidential information.
Learn more about the importance of privacy and data use here.
Tips to identify phishing
Nothing is good enough
- We would all love to win a little money out of the blue, wouldn't we? But to win a raffle without having participated is something odd...
Nothing is bad enough
- Many hackers make use of negative situations, try to make you doubt yourself.
- It is very easy to get alarmed if you suddenly receive an email from the "bank" saying that you forgot to pay for 2 months.
- Remember, do not rush and the main advice is to check the email they wrote you from, it must look official otherwise be sure that they wanted to access your bank details.
Spelling mistakes or drafting errors
- It is not addressed to you.
- It can be addressed to your email address ¿a bit weird? So they send thousands of emails at a time with a simple degree of personalization. This means that they know your email address but not you, an example of which is included below.
- Has spelling errors, missing letters, etc.
Take care of your privacy, the best strategy against phishing
- Have you ever wondered ¿how they got my email address? Chances are you left it on a website that is not secure.
- It can be easy for us to leave our email in a comment in a social network. ¡Be careful!
- In this context I recommend:
- Check the privacy policy of the websites you visit and verify that they do not transfer data to third parties. Or at least not without your consent.
- Try to avoid pages that start only with HTTP. On the contrary, those that start with HTTPS are verified pages in their security protocols.
- Learn more about your rights in Mexico and the differences with the most advanced legal framework for data protection in the world here.
User name email 1: Government of Mexico Notice24447
E-mail address 1: urgente@tcmexico.org
Analysis:
This is not an official email from the Government of Mexico. They usually end in gob.mx, or with the @ followed by the relevant institution.
User name email 2: Government of Mexico 584435
E-mail address 2: contacto58401@fimanes5.orrascasliberia.eu
Analysis:
¿Who would make an email so hard to remember?
This class of emails indicates that they are created by automated processes that give a "folio number".
User name email 3: Financiero 990441
E-mail address 3: contacto99040@firmantes1.borrascaslibreria.eu
Analysis
User name and rare emails indicating automation.
User name e-mail 4: NA
E-mail address 4: suusuellloe@suddenlink.net
Analysis
I won the lottery, someone wants to give me millions of dollars .... Too good to be true.
¿What to do if I receive one of these phishing emails?
If you received one of these emails, don't worry, nothing will happen if you just ignore it. The best thing you can do is to share this form of hacking with your friends to prevent them from becoming victims.
The way in which these emails can gain access to your fiscal, banking, etc. data is when you follow the hyperlink included in the text, enter your email address and your password to "log in".
All you would be doing in this case is providing them with such information.
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