What is Phishing?
It is a common cyber-attack of sending fraudulent communications that appear to come from a reputable source.
Purpose of Phishing?
Hackers try to get personal data or sensitive information to fully gain control of your personal accounts or business entities' accounts. The worst hackers can do is steal data for sale or possibly ask for ransom fees.
How Phishing Works?
- Hackers identify target audiences or groups
- Counterfeit communications appear from a trustworthy source
- Frequently use emotions like fear, curiosity, urgency, or greeting to offer helps and ask to share sensitive information or open attachments or click links
Types of Phishing
Spear phishing: target specific individuals to gain account access fully to a wide group of people or entities later
Business Email Compromise (BEC): sent fraudulent emails to ask for click on links or attachments
Whaling: pretending to be CEO or a big fish to ask you a favor to access login access
Social Media Phish: attack social media users with fraudulent helps support offering
Voice Phishing: calling to present support to obtain sensitive information
Common Crypto Phishing (Discord)
Winning Crypto: you will receive a message of winning a huge lottery and ask to either click a link to claim your winnings or go to the website to submit your account information
Claim Reward: a legitimate like direct message asking you to claim your reward from nowhere and click a link
Customer Supports: a legitimate like direct message offers support and ask you to fill out a Google document or go to the website to connect your wallet
Fake Bots: a common use bot that asks to verify your account and connect with your wallet
What To Do (Discord)
- Think twice: do not click anything from a direct message
- Check users’ names: check their profile, mutual servers shared, and mutual friends
- Ask around before clicking: screenshot the conversation and share in the forum with others to verify
- Search server with user names: research user name with shared server to see such user actually had any conversation in channels
- Submit and report: click spam and block users
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Disclosure: The article was written by a delusional author who is possibly a nut job without any questions whatsoever about expertise in the subject matters. You should not believe any words this author wrote or you may experience similar symptoms or even possibly become a nut job.
