Protect yourself from Phishing

Not familiar with Phishing? Phishing is when someone sends out an email to unwilling victims to trick them to giving up personal information. Emails will look like they came from your employer, bank, or even your friend. Typically, the victim would click on a lnk which could then lead up to malware introduced to your computer or even identity theft.
Here are some tips from Kaspersky.com on how to protect yourself from Phishing attacks:

• Always check the link before clicking. Hover over it to preview the URL, and look carefully for misspelling or other irregularities.
• Enter your username and password only over a secure connection. Look for the “https” prefix before the site URL, indicating the site it secure. If there is no “s,” beware.
• Even if a message or a letter came from one of your best friends, remember that they could also have been fooled or hacked. That’s why you should remain cautious in any situation. Even if a message seems friendly, treat links and attachments with suspicion.
• Messages from official organizations, such as banks, tax agencies, online shops, travel agencies, airlines, and so on, also require scrutiny. Even internal messages from your own office. It’s simply not that hard to fabricate a fake letter that looks like a real one.
• Sometimes e-mails and websites look just like real ones. It depends on how well the criminals did their homework. But the hyperlinks, most likely, will be incorrect — with spelling mistakes, or they can redirect you to a different place.
• It’s better not to follow links from e-mails at all. Instead you can open a new tab or window and enter the URL of your bank or other destination manually.
• If you discover a phishing campaign, report it to the bank, the support desk of your social media network, or whatever other entity the phishing message claims to represent. Reporting really helps in the pursuit of criminals.
• Avoid logging in to online banks and similar services via public Wi-Fi networks. Hotspots are convenient, but it’s better to use a mobile connection or wait to get to a secure network than to lose all of the money on your credit card or in your bank account. Open networks can be created by criminals who, among other things, spoof website addresses over the connection and thereby redirect you to a fake page.
• Do not open unexpected files sent by you massively multiplayer online role-playing game comrades or other online buddies. They may be malicious ransomware or even spyware, just like attachments from official-looking e-mails. So be vigilant!
• Never forward a suspicious email.