Phishing Resources

You need information to protect information. The following resources will help you identify and avoid phishing scams.

UD phishing resources

• Secure UD “Take a BITE out of phish!” campaign, an initiative to raise awareness about phishing.
  • Be aware of the threat
  • Identify the warning signs
  • Tell us about suspicious messages
  • Erase phish from your inbox
• Best practices, a list of recommended procedures for computing security
• Phishing examples, a list of annotated sample phishing emails

Have a potential phish to report? Forward it to reportaphish@udel.edu.

Other phishing resources

• Avoiding Social Engineering and Phishing Attacks, an article from US-CERT that explains what phishing is and what you should do to stay safe
• Snopes.com, a resource for identifying phishing scams, fraudulent emails, and other hoaxes
• Phishing | OnGuard Online, a phishing resource from the US government’s internet safety web site
• About.com phishing scams, an article that covers the basics of phishing scams and that provides sample phishing emails