Test Your Knowledge of Online Scams

[mcscajun]

Think you're smart at recognizing online scams? Take a quiz to find out.

McAfee Inc.'s SiteAdvisor service has created a 10-question test to see whether you can spot "phishing" attempts to steal passwords and other personal information by mimicking popular Web sites such as eBay Inc.'s PayPal and News Corp.'s MySpace.

In eight questions, you are presented with two Web sites or e-mail messages and are asked to identify the authentic one. The final two questions test your general knowledge about scams.

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Visit http://tinyurl.com/ytec4u to take the quiz.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/25/AR2007072501482_pf.html

[Hugin]

1. Bookmarking...

Thx mcscajun. :thumbsup:

[MonkeyFunk]

2. got 9 out of 10

[flvegan]

3. 10 out of 10

This is good, I'm fwd'ing to a few folks that might get good use of the wakeup call.

[sakabatou]

4. 8 out of 10

[Deja Q]

5. Question 2, re: paypal, gets a 'page not found' error

:rofl:

[Deja Q]

7. Firefox users, allow the browser to temporarily use siteadvisor.com. 9/10 right

Missed the amazon.com question. :eek:

[asthmaticeog]

6. 9 out of 10.

I missed the first PayPal question.

[MysticalChicken]

8. I got 9 out of 10

I only missed question 4.

Some of them I had to really scrutinize for spelling mistakes, grammar, missing links, wrong URLs, etc.

[mulsh]

9. 8 out of 10

I got #'s 3 & 7 wrong & I do business with both corps. however i don't do any on line business with financial institutions.

[FloridaJudy]

10. 9 out of 10

I missed the "My Space" question, but then I never use My Space.
Great quiz.

[mcscajun]

21. The key to that one was the address in the URL/Locator bar.

One was totally bogus. :hi:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. 9/10.

[BarenakedLady]

12. 9/10 (n/t)

[Maestro]

13. 10 out of 10.

I am a safety guru. Actually, it was quite easy with the stilted English or just downright horrible grammar. ;)

[DS1]

14. 10

[cloudbase]

15. 9/10

Missed the Amazon one.

Thanks for the link.

[supernova]

16. 7 out of 10

I didn't recognize the sites that I don't use: My Space, Bank of America, and PayPal

[petronius]

17. I got 10 out of 10, but none of those pages let me enter my credit card number

was I doing it wrong? My CC# is 5231 4040 1111 5786

:shrug:

[hyphenate]

18. ...

:rofl:

[hyphenate]

19. 9/10

Just missed #4. I've never had to worry--I just hover over a link in an email and check the link to see if it's the real deal. Of course, after nearly twenty years online, if I can't spot a phish-scam by now, I deserve to be conned. :)

[mcscajun]

22. 10/10 here, and that's the way I feel about it.

I've worked System Security and in fraud areas, have been online a long time, and have a naturally skeptical nature. :)

[ghostsofgiants]

20. 8 out of 10 though the two I got wrong should have been obvious.

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. Fuck them - as far as I am concerned, I got all 10. They say I got Quest. 4 wrong.

Fuckers - I contest their ruling.

While checking the "from:" field isn't a guarantee, it IS a good first step to checking for spam. It's always my first step. If the spammer is dumb enough to not make the from: field look genuine, then you know you got spam.

They used the very nebulous "One good way to protect yourself", which could be taken many different ways.

I have, indeed, gotten spam from people at hotmail and yahoo and other ludicrous accounts saying they are with paypa, or a bank, or other institution. Yeah, like the customer people at CitiBank are using hotmail accounts.

:eyes:

Fuck McAfee's test - I scored perfect.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

26. Can we be certain that test was really a McAfee site?

Hmmm...

[Canuckistanian]

30. My credit card bill says they are

Although they spelled it wrong - they call themselves "McAghee".

[TheBaldyMan]

24. I just bought shares in a diamond mine in Nigeria.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

25. I'm a Safety Guru! 10/10

Nothing like building up a sense of false confidence, eh?

[BlooInBloo]

27. Ah. A literacy test. Neat.

[astral]

28. 8 out of 10 n/t

[Random_Australian]

29. 10/10 without much knowledge of this stuff. How? I'd taken it before and my memory is v. good.

:)

[Blue-Jay]

31. 9/10

I don't click on links that are sent to my various email addresses anyhow, so I'm OK.

Hint: Type in the URL of the website, and NEVER click on an emailed link.

[mcscajun]

34. Two very sound principles; here's one more:

Never ever ever open e-mail from anyone you don't know. Ever.

:hi:

[KitchenWitch]

32. I scored 9

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

33. 10/10!

[mikeytherat]

35. 10 for 10

mikey_the_rat

[Fox Mulder]

36. 10/10

[seemunkee]

37. 10/10

Thank the goddess, I'm supposed to be in charge of security around here.

[mcscajun]

38. Ha!

you're right. It wouldn't do to have the security guru not get her appropriate rating. :D