Most people have heard of scams where a fake email is sent to a user’s
\nemail, usually pretending to be from a credit card company or bank.
\nThese are called, “Phishing” emails, because they lure users into
\nthinking that they need to reply.<\/p>\n
Phishing emails are dangerous and have potentially catastrophic effects.<\/p>\n
One particular type of phishing email could be the most malicious of
\nthem all: an email pretending to be your email provider that asks you
\nfor your account and personal information. Do not be fooled.<\/p>\n
Read below and learn about phishing attacks, what you can do and what
\nXMission does to protect your accounts.<\/p>\n
How phishing attacks happen.<\/strong><\/p>\n Phishing is an elaborate form of data and identity theft. It works by How to spot a phishing email.<\/strong><\/p>\n While phishing emails often differ, they almost always look legitimate Examples of email subjects:<\/strong><\/p>\n Examples of From:<\/strong><\/p>\n Example of a Phishing body:<\/strong><\/p>\n Confirm your email account by filling in the details below:<\/p>\n Username:<\/p>\n Password:<\/p>\n Why it’s so difficult to stop.<\/strong><\/p>\n Often, phishing emails come for legitimate email accounts that have been Phishers use a variety of camouflage techniques to avoid being detected Potential consequences:<\/strong><\/p>\n By replying or following links inside emails like these you can do more Common Examples of what phishers can do:<\/strong><\/p>\n Don’t fall for it:<\/strong><\/p>\n Follow these tips to stay safe:<\/p>\n Safety:<\/strong><\/p>\n Customers with \u201c@xmission.com\u201d email addresses can verify that they have Use an antivirus program that helps detect malicious emails and websites<\/p>\n What XMission does to protect you:<\/strong><\/p>\n We have full time staff that monitors incoming and outgoing email for XMission uses Spamassassin on its five email scanning servers We have Email Admins available around the clock to respond to phishing We keep details statistics that you can view at: Our systems have been configured to automatically detect phishing emails What is Spamassassin?<\/strong><\/p>\n Excerpt from spamassassin.apache.org<\/p>\n SpamAssassin uses a wide variety of local and network tests to identify
\npersuading users to respond to emails asking for personal information or
\nto go to a website where information can be entered. These are so
\neffective because the emails usually look trustworthy and sound like
\nplausible scenarios.<\/p>\n
\nand always ask you for something confidential.<\/p>\n\n
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\ncompromised, which is what XMission has been dealing with recently.<\/p>\n
\nby our antispam\/antiphishing systems by using:<\/p>\n\n
\nemail;<\/li>\n
\ndamage than you might imagine.<\/p>\n\n
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\ninformation<\/li>\n
\nwill use a secure website and digital certificate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nspam filtering enabled on your account, this catches almost all phishing
\nattempts. You can verify that filtering is enabled by going to
\nhttp:\/\/webmail.xmission.com<\/a> and entering your login information. There
\nyou will find a button called, “Filters”. Business customers have
\nfiltering enabled already, unless requested otherwise. If you have
\nquestions, you can always go to http:\/\/chat.xmission.com<\/a> and talk with
\none of our technical staff or call us at 801-539-0852.<\/p>\n
\nspam, phishing and other potentially harmful traffic<\/p>\n
\n(http:\/\/spamassassin.apache.org<\/a>) and is constantly writing rules to
\naccount for trends in spam and phishing emails (see: What is
\nSpamassassin below)<\/p>\n
\nemails.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/postmaster.xmission.com<\/a><\/p>\n
\nand notify our staff<\/p>\n
\nspam signatures. This makes it harder for spammers to identify one
\naspect which they can craft their messages to work around.<\/p>\n