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Everyone has come across a suspicious email attempting to get your confidential information. Usually , a phishing email can be easily identified by the address it's sent from, typos or suspicious content. Nowadays phishing email can look credible, which makes it more difficult to identify. Some messages can use information that can be found online to make the message seem more real, such as first and last name. Phishing emails are very common, because it's easy and effective to implement.
Phishing is criminal activity done in an IT environment. It is a attempt to get a person's private information is criminal activity done in an IT environment. A . Often a phishing e-mail pretends to be coming from a legitimate party and requests information that should be kept private. Most phishing messages that Metropolia users receive asks to give their password because of a change in some system.
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Often, the messages even come from an address that does not belong to the alleged sender. You will see the address above the message as shown in the image (the address is highlighted in red):
In the example above, the sender is named "Metropolia University of Applied Sciences". When you take a closer look at the sender's address, you will notice that it does not end at @metropolia.fi. This is therefore not Metropolia's e-mail address.
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