Fake e-mails fool users 28 percent of the time

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(My score: You got 10 out of 10 correct, or 100 % )

100proof1957

10 for 10

coppercoins

9 of 10...but the important thing here is that I delete all email I didn't ask for. I have never been drawn into a scam because I delete all of it before it has a chance to sway me.

airplanenut

<< <i>9 of 10...but the important thing here is that I delete all email I didn't ask for. I have never been drawn into a scam because I delete all of it before it has a chance to sway me. >>

Cheater! That's no fun

coppercoins

<< <i>Cheater! That's no fun >>



heh! Neither is changing all your pertinent information because you handed all of it to a thief on a silver platter. It's bad enough that they've figured out how to upload viruses to your machine by clicking on web links.

stpaulmale

10 for 10 hooray!

lathmach

There are fake e-mails?

Ray

Conder101

Only 8 out of 10 but I did correctly identify all of the frauds. I errored on the other two because they violated e-mail security by providing a clickable link to a login page. Something no legitimite email should ever do.

ziggy29

10 out of 10 here. But as Conder said, a couple of the ones that I deemed legitimate (and were) are also directly adding clickable links in their e-mails. While that *can* be legit, I'd still never click on the link in the e-mail, and I'd *treat* it as a phishing fraud. If I thought it was legit and it was something I wanted to look into, I'd directly enter the site by typing the full URL, and then navigating in that site to the area of interest to confirm its legitimacy.

coppercoins

The only one I missed was a legit one that I said was a fraud...because the grammar sucks.

LanLord

Little do you all know but opening up that first link placed a robot on your system. I hope you have something like spybot to clean yourself up with.