Phishing is becoming more of a problem than ever. Everyday more and more phishing scams pop up, emails flood our inboxes, waste space, and trick the average home user into giving up personal and confidential information.

Here is an article to help provide users with some resources and knowledge on phishing, and how to

help report it. 

 I've took some time to put together a short document on phishing and how to

be a part of reporting it.

 

I hope this can help raise the awareness amongst the average home user, who has little

or no knowledge of phishing scams.

 

 

First let’s make sure we know what phishing is with some examples.

 

http://www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=155344,00.html

 

 

Next let’s check out the phishing IQ test by Mail Frontier, a company who's main

focus is email security.

 

http://survey.mailfrontier.com/survey/quiztest.html

 

Next, let’s know where to go to report those hazardous phishing scams that fill

clutter up your inbox.

 

 

APWG - The Anti Phishing Workgroup

http://www.antiphishing.org/

 

US-CERT - United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team

http://www.us-cert.gov/nav/report_phishing.html

 

IRS - The IRS gives you advice on phishing and how to spot and report it.

 

Download The TrustedSourcre/CipherTrust toolbar for Outlook or Lotus Notes.

An Easy one click way to report phishing and see the validity of an email.

 

http://www.ciphertrust.com/products/desktop/trustedsource/

 

Get SiteAdvisor

 

SiteAdvisor is a plugin for your web browser which will tell you how safe the site

you're on is. With its red or green icons, site advisor will let you know

if that site in your google search or which you're already visiting, containts

unsafe content, or heavy spam, etc.

 

 

If you're an IT Professional here's a way to help

Keep your Organization on the lookout.

 

Phish Registry is provided free by CipherTrust. It maintains a database of Sites,

and monitors when there are attempts to mirror or copy the site to create a phishing

scam.

 

http://www.phishregistry.org/

 

 

Spam & Phishing Sucks, we all hate it, it seems never-ending. Take the time to report

spam, every email submitted can help make a difference.

 

 

Christian J. Koch

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