Nov 30 2005

Phishing Test

Published by Martin at 12:06 pm under Phishing, scams, etc.

MailFrontier Phishing IQ Test

Take a moment to look at this site and go through their Phishing IQ test. I only scored 8 out of 10, but the two I missed, I missed because I thought they were Fraudulent, when they were legitimate. Then come back and post your score in the comments.

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6 Responses to “Phishing Test”

  1. # Barryon 30 Nov 2005 at 3:45 pm

    1. Chase
    Legitimate … CORRECT

    2. PayPal
    Phishing Fraud … CORRECT

    3. Bank of America
    Phishing Fraud … INCORRECT
    (The correct answer was Legitimate)

    4. Washington Mutual
    Phishing Fraud … CORRECT

    5. MSN
    Phishing Fraud … CORRECT

    6. Earthlink
    Legitimate … CORRECT

    7. Amazon
    Phishing Fraud … CORRECT

    8. eBay
    Phishing Fraud … CORRECT

    9. Capital One
    Phishing Fraud … INCORRECT
    (The correct answer was Legitimate)

    10. Network Solutions
    Legitimate … CORRECT

    You got 8 out of 10 correct, or 80 %

    …Speaking of Chase, I tried reporting phishing to them but none of the forms on their website were for phishing reports, and they all required personal information like a telephone number. Then I tried the administrative contact email address in their whois information, but “domadmin at chase dot com” wasn’t valid and the email bounced back to me. I reported Chase to http://wdprs.internic.net/ for an incorrect administrative contact email, and I’ll be following up if I don’t see any progress.

    As for Bank of America, they don’t autorespond to phishing complaints, and they didn’t respond to my complaint about it through their form.

  2. # studenton 30 Nov 2005 at 8:16 pm

    I got the exact same as Barry (above). I just looked at the web address in the status bar at the bottom. If the address looked correct, I would glance over the email to see what it was about. As a general rule, I don’t click on links in emails when the link goes to a page where I am required to enter personal information.

  3. # Martinon 30 Nov 2005 at 8:20 pm

    Looks like we’re all making the same mistake, erring on the side of caution. Not that I’d expect anything less from the people who read this site.

  4. # Kostas P.on 02 Dec 2005 at 4:12 am

    Exactly the same mistakes for me too. But I hadn’t noticed that you could see the URL at the bottom so I had to read through them and use my instinct.

  5. # Leftymanon 04 Dec 2005 at 2:08 am

    I got most of them wrong… I pretty muched guessed the lot.

    If it was the real thing and not an image I’m sure I’d get them all right cus I use the CallingID.com toolbar which somehow always recognizes the fruad.

  6. # Jasonon 18 Feb 2006 at 2:13 am

    I got 9/10 - only one wrong was CapitalOne (with the domain thingy) which turned out to be legitimate - hey better to be safe than sorry!!

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