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Identify Fake And Genuine Email -- Phishing IQ Test

I was planning to write an article on Scam / Phishing Email detection, how to recognize an email whether it's a legitimate or a scam mail. But then I thought before posting an article about it, lets test how good you really are in the identification of legitimate emails.

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All of us receive emails on a daily basis. Many of those emails pretend to be from bank, social accounts or from friends but they actually are fake - Phishing email. As already explained in the previous article, the bad guys tries to fool you by making a copy of the original websites and then they send you fake emails with links, which redirects you (if you click such links) to the fake websites, that’s called Phishing. These fake websites are used to grab your personal information like E-mails, Passwords, credit card numbers and any other personal information which may be useful to them.

Of course I know that you simply can't avoid yourself from opening emails which at least looks like are from banks, friends or from any known person. But, while checking emails, you should carefully read the context of it and click only those links for which you are 100% sure that are genuine. The question is how can you identify and find the difference between a fake and a genuine email? Well that's what the Phishing IQ test is all about - give it a try.