Defeat Phishing: Train Emotional Detachment to Scams

Here are some great articles that showed how some unsuspecting people get sucked into online scams:

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/online-dating-made-woman-pawn-global-crime-plot/

Everyone has to learn how to defeat their own potential phishing attack…

 

Are you interested in vision loss?  or staying at a nice hotel for a weekend getaway? Or reducing your energy costs?

 

You can see where I am going with this…

Every email that comes in to your mailbox has to be weighed as a potential attack into your digital life.

 

Phishing is when an email comes into your mailbox and it has a link that connects to malware that ends up getting installed on your computer or phone.

 

So never click on those bad links right?

Well easier said than done… Maybe you just bid on an Ebay item, and a scam Ebay  email comes in.

Maybe your mind is now in subconscious mode, and you don’t mean to do it, but clicked on the email – as an automatic response…  Well DON’T DO THAT.

 

Train yourself – become emotionally cyber aware.   And prevent your auto response to be to click first…

instead look at this logically… or in another way – teach _yourself_