Is It Real or Fake?

Here’s one phishing trip that you won’t mind taking. It’s an interactive quiz provided by Consumer Reports to see if you can tell which email is real or fake. It’s a series of 12 screens showing actual emails, both fraudulent and legitimate (real names have been removed of course).

Millions of consumers get taken by these types of scams every year. So if you’re ready to test your skills, click here to be taken to the quiz.

Spear Phishing

The FBI is alerting consumers of a cyber scheme taking place across the country.

Customers of a telecommunications firm received an e-mail recently explaining a problem with their latest order. They were asked to go to the company website, via a link in the e-mail, to provide personal information—like their birth dates and Social Security numbers. But both the e-mail and the website were bogus.