What Can I Do to Avoid Phishing Scams?

There are some easy steps you can follow to avoid phishing scams, including:

• Don’t use email to send your personal and financial information
• Don’t reply to email or pop-up messages that ask for your personal or financial information
• Don’t click on links or cut-n-paste a link from an unfamiliar message into your browser. Phishers can make a link look like it will take you to one place but actually sends you to a different site.
• Review credit card and bank account statements as soon as you receive them to check for unauthorized charges.
• Be cautious about opening email attachments or downloading email files, regardless of who sent them to you
• Use firewalls and anti-virus and anti-spyware software, updating them all regularly

• What Is Phishing?
• What Does Phishing Look Like?
• What Should I Do If I Receive Phishing Spam?
• Where Can I Get More Information About phishing?
• Report Spam, Chain Mail, Phishing, or Generally Abusive Email
• Spam Filtering at ASU