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Is it phishing sound familiar to the fishing? You can make it like as same. In this method, you going to be a fish. Those attacks happen to you by a message coming from email or social network. After clicking you that massage you are landing to a fake site, most of those fake sites like the popular social site( eg:- facebook, twitter). The hacker makes you click a link, after you going to landing on a page that required your password or download some software.
Most of this kind of messages coming like you have won some cash, gift or you have elected to some huge money saving deal.
To keep from this you can make sure before you click any link from a message, put your mouse cursor on that link and check it URL is perfect. if that URL is familiar with a popular site make sure it begins with a https:// not http://(without “s”). https:// means you have a secure connection with that site.
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