Welcome to our
HALLOWEEN
PHISHING QUIZ
Find out how easily you can be tricked by cybercriminals.
You may be a master in identifying phishing trickery, but you won’t know until you choose: TRICK OR TREAT!
By the way - all images shown in this quiz are real life examples!
The email below could be a phishing email (Trick), or an innocent one (Treat). Take a good look and choose your answer carefully:
Choose Trick or Treat:
TRICK
phishing attack
TREAT
safe email
CORRECT
INCORRECT
Phishing indicators from top to bottom:
  • Sender – name doesn’t match the email address
  • Sense of urgency – exclamation mark in the subject
  • Addressee – placeholder for addressee email which implies a script generated it
  • File type – EFTs usually come in web formats or PDF, not Docx which is relatively more dangerous
THIS IS A SAFE EMAIL
Phishing indicators from top to bottom:
  • Sender domain – auto-generated, meaningless and doesn’t fit the name
  • Subject – clickbait (the gift is the subject, not the survey)
  • Too good to be true – getting instant reward of at least $80 for answering a survey
  • Sense of “you were chosen”
THIS IS A SAFE EMAIL
Phishing indicators from top to bottom:
  • Odd design
  • Too good to be true – everything 90% off? 🤨
  • Buttons are all over the place
Phishing indicators from top to bottom:
  • Sender – different name and AD user
  • Addressing users by their email and not name
  • Sense of urgency – password expires today
THIS IS A SAFE EMAIL
Phishing indicators from top to bottom:
  • Subject – clickbait (the gift is the subject, not the survey)
  • Sender – the giveaway team? 🤨
  • Too good to be true – getting instant reward of at least $120 for answering a survey
Phishing indicators from top to bottom:
  • Old logo format
  • Too good to be true – getting $100 gift card for nothing
  • Suspicious link
Phishing indicators from top to bottom:
  • Old email format
  • Problematic alignment
  • Sense of urgency – link in capital letters, bold and red
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