FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

COMPUTER THREATS SECURITY

WHAT IS A HACKER

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the most common way to receive a phishing scam?
A
Text message
B
Email
C
Downloading films
D
Unsafe wesbites
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Fake emails: Email is the most commonly employed phishing channel. A phishing email might ask you to open an attachment, call a fake customer care number, or click on a website link. These emails include a sense of urgency. Fake texts: Fake text attacks are also called smishing.

Detailed explanation-2: -Email Phishing scams are carried out online by tech-savvy con artists and identity theft criminals. They use spam, fake websites constructed to look identical to real sites, email and instant messages to trick you into divulging sensitive information, like bank account passwords and credit card numbers.

Detailed explanation-3: -Deceptive phishing is the most common type of phishing scam. In this ploy, fraudsters impersonate a legitimate company to steal people’s personal data or login credentials. Those emails use threats and a sense of urgency to scare users into doing what the attackers want.

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