Comments on: How To Learn Your Phishing IQ

By: Daisy

Daisy — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:31:42 +0000

Cool! I haven’t tried it yet, but people should definitely know more about this.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:21:37 +0000

8 out of 10, I agree with Chris that both Chase bank pages looked fake. Also I thought both Paypal emails looked bogus as their emails are usually poorly worded in general. I found it surprising how often grammar was used as a measure of whether or not a site is authentic. I see poor grammar on “real” sites all the time. I am pretty surprised at how much phishing has progressed over the last couple of years. Thanks for showing us the quiz, Steve

By: rus

rus — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:15:41 +0000

8 out of 10 missed, cheers mate…

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:33:36 +0000

Nice work folks!

By: Chris Hemphill

Chris Hemphill — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:20:13 +0000

9 out of 10 missed Chase, both looked like a scam to me

By: Sameer Vasta

Sameer Vasta — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:00:47 +0000

9 out of 10…missed some really glaring errors on the Bank of America site. Silly me.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:13:23 +0000

@Jonk Corrected, thanks mate.

@Markius I’m really mad about the MySpace one, should have seen the URL. I was so busy looking for other weirdness I missed it.

By: Markius

Markius — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:57:13 +0000

I got “Safety Guru”. Missed Chase as well as Amazon.

I think that this is a really good idea McAfee has. More people need to be made aware of how these scams work. Inherently, we’re all ‘skimmers’ online and a thorough look at an email or website does wonders for keeping you out of trouble.

By: Jonk : Cheap websites for Australians

Jonk : Cheap websites for Australians — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:20:51 +0000

Don’t mean to pick but you have a typo on Phishing

All up a very good quiz, I got Chase wrong. “Awkward phrasing” is gonna be tough to pick if you’re from outside the USA