Safe emailing

E-mail has been part of our technology for a very long time, since 1971, which is almost 50 years.Because it has been around for so long you can probably imagine that malicious users also like to use it.This happens in different ways, for example phishing and spam, we will cover two three topics in this blog post.

Spam

Of all these practices, sending spam is the best known. Spam is used, among other things, to send advertisements.These are almost always products or services that you do not want, if you use title="hosting">hosting then you might get spam mails from so-called web developers.They will then offer to make a website for you, if you accept their offer then chances are they won't make a website for you.

You can often recognize spam by a number of things, very often spam is sent to many people at once, of course this is not always the case.Usually in a spam mail there is also a link to a product you are not interested in, it is often used to sell things.If you use the mail at MijnHostingPartner.nl you will experience almost no inconvenience.If you want extra protection against spam you can always use the addon from spam experts, the costs are 10 euros ex vat per year.

Phishing

Another method that is often used is phishing, the sender often pretends to be a bank.The content of the email often states that your bank account has expired and to activate it you must log in to the website.It can also happen that the wording is slightly different and that they ask for your details for verification.Do not fall for this, because if you log in to the link that is sent, they will have your bank details.

Often these fake websites that they have created look very real, however there are a few things that you should pay attention to.The most important thing to watch out for is that banks will never ask for your login details, if you see this you can almost immediately assume that it concerns phishing.There is also always a SSL certificate on the website to check the lock that you see next to the domain name.If it is not there, you can be 100% sure that this is a scam.

Should you have any further questions about this, you can always check to see if a member of staff is present on the chat.If no one is there, you can always send a ticket to our helpdesk.