Name: Kate Ducas

Avoiding spam and phishing

Directions:
A. Use this website
https://www.gcflearnfree.org/internetsafety/avoiding-
spam-and-phishing/1/ to answer the questions below.
B. Type your answers in any other color than black.
C. Use complete sentences to answer all questions.
D. Some answers are in the videos.
E. Other answers are in the text.
1. Give an example of spam.
An example of spam is a spam email that is trying to see
if your email is legit.
2. Give an example phishing.
An example of phishing is a email from your “bank” that
really is a scammer try to get your info
3. What are two ways to deal with spam?
Get a spam filter (make sure no real email are in there
tho) and you can turn off email images so you cant get
tracked by images.
4. Why is it important to avoid spam?
Spam can make it hard to get to the emails you actually
want to read and/or they can contain malware.