Phishing test(s)

Hey, here's a good test I stumbled across online just now. It deals with Phishing.

Seeing as I haven't defined that yet in plain english, Phishing is trying to steal someone's information (social security, bank account, name, whatever) for illigetimate use. How can you tell a phishing epedition? Here's a good link (PDF BEWARE!) .

Read the above link for more info about Phishing, or go here for the test. I only scored an 80%, but I erred on the right side, thinking legitimate ones were fraud. Frankly, I ignore all messages from banks/eBay/whatever unless I expect them, so I'd have just marked them ALL illigitimate, and deleted them anyways. The older version of the test (different emails) is here.

Well, have fun, lemme know how you do.

Edit: Guess I'll post some more tests...

To see if your browser is secure, go here and look on the right side under "Illustrative Example". Hopefully it says "If I were a phisher, I would assume you don't bank online." If it doesn't, you need to fix how you browse the web. Yes, I can help.

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