Protect yourself from phishing

Institution: Osnovna Škola Čakovec
Target Audience: Students, Teachers, Parents
Duration: 30 minutes
Type of Practice: Examples

Objective:
To acquire a good practice of protecting yourself from phishing 

Brief Description:
We will teach participants how to recognize messages that could be potential for identity theft, what to do if they receive such messages, how to additionally protect their accounts (message filtering, spam, two-step login…). 

More Information:
Phising is an attack where individuals want to steal your information, money or your entire identity by pretending to be a reputable person or acquaintance and sending a fake message that contains a link to a phishing website. It is necessary to delete the message and block or report the sender. Messages are often from a sender who has not sent any message so far, have misspellings, generic greetings, suspicious links and attachments, mismatched email domains (they change one letter). 

What do you need to replicate?
Develop awareness of the importance  of not clicking on every link a person receive in e-mail