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Phishing scams, fact sheet

Date published: 23rd October 2008

Phishing scams are all about luring you into handing over your personal and banking details to scammers. Most work by setting up special links in the email to take you to a combination of genuine and spoofed websites.

This fact sheet gives you some warning signs and common tricks used by scammers to protect yourself from being scammed.

No printed version of this publication is available.

An electronic version of this publication is available at no cost.

23rd October 2008
Phishing scams, fact sheet.pdf (536.6 KB)
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