re: What is phishing? Here's a real-life example

Wendi from Virginia — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:34:39 GMT

I took the Phishing IQ test by SonicWALL and found it interesting that they said that the PayPal example email was legitimate. I have PayPal, I know from exprience that PayPal will not send such an email to my email address but will only send it to my Ebay account messages. As PayPal has stated in the past, that is how they assure privacy in a legitimate manner. I was told by PayPal to consider all emails coming only to my email address (and not also sent to my Ebay account messages) to be a phishing scam. So SonicWALL may want to reconsider that example.

Other than that, I have found that the examples were accurate. It is a good test of your knowledge on phishing scams. Everyone should look at it. As a teacher, I plan to use the IQ test in my classrooms for the internet safety lessons.