Fake Messages and Dangerous Links: How to Spot Phishing and Smishing

Lesson 05.

Key Takeaway

Phishing, smishing, and vishing are the same trick through different channels. The response is always the same: go directly to the real source yourself. Never follow a link or call a number that arrived in an unsolicited message.

A man in a raincoat walks down a city street holding up a big umbrella while a downpour of paper envelopes, speech bubbles and small parcel boxes rains from the sky around him.