Most of us get a lot of Spam and Phishing E-Mails delivered to our E-Mail, but if you are to ask to spot the difference between a legitimate e-mail and a phishing scam sitting in your in-box? Then according to sonicwall most of the internet users won’t be able to spot the difference. To help internet users sonicwall has a free online test for Phishing and Spam IQ questions. sonicwall offers a series of E-Mails asking users to identify them as Phishing, Legitimate or No Answer.
According to Sonicwall, only 59.4 percent of test takers so far this year have been able to properly identify a legitimate e-mail, compared with 77.8 percent of the test takers in 2004. And this year, only 7.4 percent of test takers were able to correctly identify and categorize every e-mail they were presented. The good news is that people are better at spotting a likely phishing scam. This year 86.1 percent caught the scam, as opposed to only 69.2 percent in 2004. via [CNET : Online quiz tests phishing knowledge]
Instructions: To begin click the "Start the Test" button below. Each question will be displayed one at a time in a browser window and you decide if the e-mail is a "Phish" or "Legitimate." When you have completed the test you’ll get a score along with a chance to see "why" a question was a phish or legitimate.
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