Phishing or Scams

Kia ora, this week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about phishing & scams. When someone is phishing you they could want to press a link that could say something like there is a virus and they want you to download a software. As soon as you go into the website you could lose your personal things like all your photos and videos. Sometimes they ask you if you want your photos back you have to pay thousands of dollars but you shouldn’t really do that because they could be phishing you again. When someone is scamming you they could add something on facebook for example: your first car when you were born your neighborhood and act like its a cool game to fill out but really they are just scamming your personal information. They can also do this in many other ways by saying to win a PS5 fill out this form with your personal information and you could win one. Also another example: if you go on a site there is always a lock in the top left corner where the url goes, sometimes there is a red line crossing over it. If you ever go on a website and you see that then the owner of the website can steal your personal information because it means that the website is not secure. Something that I have learnt from this activity is that whenever I go onto a website to always look at the top left corner to see if there is a lock with a red line across it and if there is then its trying to steal personal information. If you would like to learn more then you can check out my DLO down below. I hope my DLO helps, bye bye!