Phising, what is it and how do you recognize it?

If you do online banking, of course you don't want them to find out about your login details.Malicious people have different ways of finding out those details.One of these ways is also known as Phising.What they actually do is send an email pretending to be a bank.

The content of these mails is often different, sometimes they ask for verification which requires you to log in with your bank details.If you log in with these credentials, the Phisers will have access to your account.It can also happen that they send an email in which they offer you compensation if you log in with your bank details, in which case they will also have your details.

How do you recognize phising?

Internet criminals are getting smarter and smarter and will invent new techniques to scam you.It may also be that they want to break into your Hosting.This can of course have very nasty consequences so we want to give you a few tips so this does not happen to you.

First of all, banks will never ask for your login details in order to confirm or compensate you, so if you receive mails about this you can ignore them and block the sender.In addition, it is always advisable to check the sender, very often this will come from a Hotmail, Gmail or live address.

It can also happen that these people pretend to be a company, for example. They will then create a phantom invoice stating that you still have an outstanding payment and attach a phantom invoice.

In general, these mails fortunately end up in your spam folder but this is not always the case.If you receive this kind of mail on your Mail Hosting it is advisable to check the spam filters.Then it is recommended to check your Spam Filters and adjust them if necessary.

If you have any further questions about Phising you can always see if there is a chat employee available.If there is no chat employee available you can always send a ticket to our helpdesk!