Posts Tagged ‘security’

Phishing Online – Don’t Reply.

I did have a few post earlier with the intention to remind fellow friends not to believe in Phishing Emails requesting you to login to any internet banking facility. If you interested to read more, click here, and here.

Same as this one. I had just saw this email in my mailbox.

Even though it “look like Hotmail, write like Hotmail, but I am certain that it is not from Hotmail”. Why say so? For security reason, all the internet services won’t seek for users to send their information, especially those sensitive one like username, password, DOB and so on over un-encrypted channel, of course not a simply email. If they were to do so, they won’t attach a link to ask you login via the link also. They will need to request you to key in the very original service URL, for this example, you should be asked to visit http://www.hotmail.com/ and login to your account, then from there VERIFY your account. Please never never reply to such email. Maybe you can consider reporting the fraud to hotmail and get confirmation from them, if you feel uncomfortable leave it alone. However as what I said earlier, in terms of security, it worth redundant work. Please let your friends know also to beware about it.