How Good Are You at Recognizing Fake Websites and Spam Emails ?

Rating : Tightrope Walker. The last 2 questions were more like G.K. questions however :-(

my score was 7/10...not baad ...:D
hey amit do u think average internet users can really differentiate between a real and a "phishing" site?
well i think ...they cant do it ! its those guys who usually fall into phishers traps

8/10, Security Guru :)

same here.. Tightrope Walker

I scored 8/10. Man, they're hard!

Rating: Tightrope Walker :)

I got 6 out of 10, Tightrope Walker!

This test is nonsense and serves no other purpose than to scare people so much that they'll use McAfee products.

All of these sites are fake to me, because I use never use one of them. So receiving an email about any of these sites would go straight to my trashcan. Other than that, a lot of these tests don't even list an URL. Because I'm not even familiar with these companies nor their websites, there is absolutely no way I can know which one is real and which one is not.

Nothing more than McAfee spreading FUD.

9/10, Missed the Chase one.... scary thing is, I have a Chase account....

I was a tightrope walker as well :)

8/10 - kinda embarrassing.

A lot of their "how we knew" was based on poor English used by the scamsters and flawed site design - this may not necessarily be the case. There's nothing stopping a scamster from making his site a byte for byte clone of the original.

The only real indicator is the url via which that popup was loaded, we're at a complete disadvantage since the tests don't let us see these urls.

9/10. Not spuprised there, to be honest.

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John Smith

I got 9/10, but I found the quiz hard to take. On a real site, I usually check out some of the hyperlinks to see if they go to bogus domains -- I couldn't really do that w/ the screen shots. Interesting illustration of how sophisticated these phishers are getting, though. I'm not sure we, as in industry, can really expect an end-user to distinguish a fake site reliably.

heh! how 'bad phrasing' in english is stressed in identifying fake sites :P
amit agarwal, how about detecting bad phrases in ur blogs? ;)

easiest way to find out fishing is to look at URL. The quiz tests your grammer skills and the real sites can also do grammatical mistakes.

I missed the Chase one as well. Someone mind telling me why it's fake? I googled the phone number and it leads to the real Chase site.

6/10. Whoever duplicated the fake sites were non professionals to leave obvious clues (like using poor english etc).

Rating: Tightrope Walker

Not bad. You avoided some deceptive Web sites that would have put your personal information at risk. But you chose others that pose serious security threats that could lead to identity theft or financial losses.

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8/10. Safty Guru

YOU ANSWERED 8 OF 10 QUESTIONS CORRECTLY
Rating: Safety Guru

Not too shabby, but some of those banking ones were a bit tricky...I'm not so sure if I would second guess them if I were in a hurry.

9/10 - missed the amazon one

I liked this test, but you can always tell if the website is a fake via the address bar. Sub domains should always have the real brand name next to the .com or .whatever.

They made the test difficult by leaving that out on some of the examples - I didn't even look for spelling errors, I assumed the scammer copied and pasted the same content.

Nice content...I'll be linking to it from my blog.