Hi! Please help me protect my e-mail address from phishing. How can I protect myself from phishing?

Answer 1

make a seprate email for people you dont know.

Answer 2

Never trust a link in an email! NEVER, did I say "Never?", YES NEVER!

Good, phishing is not a problem anymore.

So what should you do? If you get a notice from Ebay, Paypal, your bank, etc simply ignore the link and type the address into your browser by hand, or use a link you saved in your Favorites/Bookmarks. I do not mean to retype the link they gave you in the email. You must type it in from a know source.

I have seen phishing that was so good it amazed me. It is simply not worth playing with fire when the work-around is so easy.

One more thing, if you think your free email (Yahoo/Gmail/ etc ) is not valuable enough to protect .... think again! If someone gets your Yahoo email account they can then go to all the major retailers (of which you probably used at least one). and do a "Forgot Password" as a means to fetch your accounts and go on a spending spree. So your free Yahoo email is actually the "Keys to the Kingdom". It may be free, but it is also valuable.

Answer 3

Get Firefox 2 with a built-in anti-phishing scanner, or if you don't want to upgrade now, use Firefox 1.5 with Google Toolbar.
http://www.cybertopcops.com/review-mozilla-firefox.php

Also use an e-mail client like Thunderbird. It has built-in protection to warn you when a link in an e-mail is linking to a phishing site.
http://www.cybertopcops.com/review-mozilla-thunderbird.php

Answer 4

Please read the link below an it will give you indepth details on how to protect yourself from "phishing", an includes how the criminal are making millions of dollars per day out of Romania and will never get caught has they hide behind proxy that they change daily. From my BBC NEWS, I receive daily from London, England


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6083818.stm

The next link is from the Government of Australia, I receive alerts from their computer security agency on alerts of new viruses or flaws in different platforms.

For more information on transacting securely online, check out http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au

Reading both will give you good insight on how to protect yourself and what can happen if you don't (Actually you will find that your best protection is good common sense). Your security is only as good has your common sense being the user.

Clinical Psychiatrist, France

Excuse my english

Answer 5

The easiest way is to have one email address which is private, and only used between you and family friends etc.

Then have another account which is the one you use in public. it is these public email addresses which are often sold by unscrupulous websites, and the phishers then get hold of it.

Answer 6

get another email address and use that for signing up on websites. Only give your real one to trusted people.

Answer 7

When you sign up for certain websites, check the privacy terms.

Answer 8

Don't sign things up in a website that you don't know.

Answer 9

if you want to sign in to guest book, do not put your email address, if possible use this way ,example: yourname @ yahoo.com , or this one yourname {at} yahoo {dot} com