Phishing Scams

• Your name, address and date of birth

• City/town where you were born

• Social Security number

• Your age/grade/school

• Mother’s maiden name

• Father’s middle name

• Favorites (pets, food, etc.)

• Other personal information

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• To access your accounts

• To learn your answers to the most common security questions

• To open accounts in your name

• To convince you to give them money

• ​To create a profile for future use (ie: identity theft)

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• Impersonal Greeting (says “Dear Customer” or similar)

• Obvious grammatical errors​

• Urgent message and a button or link to click

• Call to update account information or enter a password

• Email address doesn’t match the name OR company name has extra words attached (ie: Amazoncloudprime.com instead of Amazon.com)

• not a secure URL (http:// versus https://)