Phishing and E-mail

Phishing is a very interesting topic when it comes to email safety and security. Phishing is a very difficult topic to address to the public because many people are too busy or do not care enough to look into what phishing is and ways they can avoid being caught up in a phishing trap. I personally have caught several phishing traps and have been involved in several attempts at ID theft. Two times I have had an unauthorized balance transfer on my credit card, and once I had an unknown pay pal payment of $300. Luckily for me I had organizations that were willing to work with me to correct the situation and set me up with new accounts. In neither attack did i get caught in a phishing attack but still the results were just as bad with me having to set up new accounts and getting new passwords to offset all the security breaches that occurred. Now my problems were different than phishing related problem they still showed me how careful I needed to be on the web. every web surfer who does any business on the web from tax returns to pay a phone bill must be careful about the websites they go to. They should check the links and even the colors of the logos to make sure they are at a website that is official and not a fake website set up to grab your information and run.

The game was fun to play and a great idea for educating the public which is often to stubborn or to ill informed for their own good. Since the game is fun and simple to play it allows more people to try and have a fun time learning about phishing while at the same time being a more informed web surfer.