Phishing and

Pharming

Thursday, March 14, 2024

ICT 1
 • Find examples of phishing and pharming by analyzing.
• Understand how phishing and
pharming can be dangerous

(Delete as appropriate)
Phishing, Pharming, Analyze

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Why must you update your anti-
virus?

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You receive this email…

What should you do?

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Phishing
We all have email addresses.

Email is a useful tool at

home, school and in work,
but spam and junk mail can
be a problem.

Phishing emails offer all

kinds of things like money,
prizes and very low prices for
products that are normally
very expensive. They can
contain virus’.
How phishing
works
Trying to trick someone into
giving out information over
email is called ‘phishing’.
Will a bank
You might receive an email
claiming to be from your bank
or from a social networking
ever ask you
for your bank
site.
They usually include a link to a
fake website that looks

log in details?
identical to the real one.
When you log in it sends your
username and password to
someone who will use it to
access your real accounts. They
might steal your money or your
identity.
How to spot a Phishing email

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Phishing email Too many exclamation marks. An
official email from a professional
organisation will not use multiple
exclamation marks.

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 Using an anonymous email address is unlikely to

Phishing email be from an official organisation. If they are

going to use a “noreply” email address it will
usually take the form of
noreply@companyname.com.

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Phishing email
Using a title which is going to
cause alarm is a typical
approach from a scammer.

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Phishing email

The main message is written using poor

English. Spelling and grammatical
errors will not usually appear in an
official email from a real organisation.

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Phishing email
A button that calls for action could take you to a
fake website which may look official but is only
created to gather your personal details. Usually an
official email asking for personal details will tell the
user to log onto the website and give the website
address which can be checked to see if it looks
official.

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Phishing email

Using scary language threatening the victim with

further problems if they do not act now is another
common tool that cyber criminals use to make people
act quickly without thinking.

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Phishing email

A link to opt out of

further notifications
will not usually look
like this. This link
will take the victim
to another data
harvesting page.

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Task – Spot the Phishing Email!

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What is wrong with this website?

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Pharming
Pharming is just like
PHISHING.
They will use
Instead of emails, they will
use a fake website that looks
like the real one.
your
It will ask you to put in your
details.
information
What do you think
happens to your details
to steal data.
when you put it in a
pharming website?
How do you think Phishing and
Pharming are linked?

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Homework
Complete the homework assignment set on teams –

You will be analyzing some more phishing emails and putting a

circle around the areas you think make the email an obvious
phishing scam.