Friday, September 9, 2016

Lesson 2:  Security

  • A customer shows you a “too good to be true” email about getting free money from Nigeria, and asks you to help them seal the deal with their banking information.
     I have received these pfhishing emails several times personally, and also had a patron at Igo who received such an email and asked what he should do about it.   First, I recounted my own experiences and informed him about some "red flags" he could look for:  poor English, misspellings, asking for personal information (SS No., bank account nos., etc).  Then some critical thinking:  why would
someone I don't know trust me with millions of their dollars in my bank account.   Makes no sense.


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