What Is Phishing? | NordVPN

In this video you'll learn about what phishing is, how it works and how you can protect yourself online. You should always be careful online, especially with unknown email senders. You check your phone. Oh, there’s an email from Facebook. It says that someone from the other side of the world logged in to your account. If it wasn’t you, the email warns, you should Click here to change your password immediately! You click — and the Facebook login window opens up. You type in your email and password, click “Log In” aaaaaand you’ve been scammed. *** 🔔 Subscribe to get the latest content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSZhRxyloC-qzURiOa3vbFQ?sub_confirmation=1 *** That’s how phishing works. Scammers send out thousands of fake messages, impersonating banks, online services (think: Netflix, Yahoo, Twitch, and others), or the government. The messages can be very well-crafted and convincing. They can also be poorly written, ridden with bad grammar, or created with Google Translate. However, these messages always warn of some disaster you’ll experience unless you Click. Here. Now! Click, and you’re taken to a website that’s been set up by the scammer. As with the messages, the website can be flawless — practically indistinguishable from the real thing. Or it can be quite primitive: just a logo and a login box. But everything you enter in a phishing website, you give up to the scammer. How to avoid phishing? First, turn on NordVPN’s CyberSec, which will automatically block known phishing sites. What about unknown ones? Discretion is the better part of valor. Always check the email address of the sender — if it looks fishy, don’t open it. The same goes for the link. For example, if Facebook sent an email, don’t click on the link. Go to your Facebook account and check if the same notification popped up there.