How can you protect yourself from phishing or spoofed emails?

How can you protect yourself from phishing or spoofed emails?

• A. Verify sender addresses, avoid-clicking suspicious links, and report phishing attempts.
• B. Click suspicious links to verify them.
• C. Ignore all unknown emails.
• D. Share the email with everyone.

Answer: (B)

Protecting yourself from phishing relies on treating email authenticity as a priority and taking careful, proactive steps. The safest approach is to verify who sent the message, avoid acting on suspicious content, and help flag the attempt so it can be blocked. Verify sender addresses: Phishers often use display names that look familiar while the actual email address or domain is off or spoofed. Check the exact address, look for subtle misspellings, unusual domains, or mismatches between the sender’s claimed organization and the email domain. If you’re unsure, contact the organization through a known channel (official app, website, or a phone number you already trust) rather than replying to the email. Avoid clicking suspicious links: Links in phishing messages can lead to fake login pages or malware. Do not click them. If you need to check a link, hover to preview the URL or type the official site address directly into your browser or app instead of using the link in the message. Report phishing attempts: Forward or report phishing to your organization’s IT/security team or to the appropriate reporting channel. Reporting helps protect others and allows security teams to block the threat and warn colleagues. Other choices don’t fit because clicking suspicious links is dangerous, ignoring all unknown emails can cause you to miss legitimate messages, and sharing the email with others spreads the risk.

Protecting yourself from phishing relies on treating email authenticity as a priority and taking careful, proactive steps. The safest approach is to verify who sent the message, avoid acting on suspicious content, and help flag the attempt so it can be blocked.

Verify sender addresses: Phishers often use display names that look familiar while the actual email address or domain is off or spoofed. Check the exact address, look for subtle misspellings, unusual domains, or mismatches between the sender’s claimed organization and the email domain. If you’re unsure, contact the organization through a known channel (official app, website, or a phone number you already trust) rather than replying to the email.

Avoid clicking suspicious links: Links in phishing messages can lead to fake login pages or malware. Do not click them. If you need to check a link, hover to preview the URL or type the official site address directly into your browser or app instead of using the link in the message.

Report phishing attempts: Forward or report phishing to your organization’s IT/security team or to the appropriate reporting channel. Reporting helps protect others and allows security teams to block the threat and warn colleagues.

Other choices don’t fit because clicking suspicious links is dangerous, ignoring all unknown emails can cause you to miss legitimate messages, and sharing the email with others spreads the risk.