How to avoid phishing actions?
Your confidential information is extremely important, and access to it must be done only by legitimate entities that have received your explicit consent. Unfortunately, the methods of fraudulently obtaining personal information have diversified and multiplied recently. Through this page we want to help you protect your data against phishing actions
What does “phishing” mean?
In essence, “phishing” is a deception carried out in the electronic space. This is intended to obtain personal identification data or bank data, through electronic messages imitating official entities.
How to identify phishing actions
Most of the time, phishing actions are of two types. The first of them is represented by contests, being the most widespread form. Users are encouraged to register by providing confidential data, under the pretext of guaranteed prizes (mobile phones, gaming consoles, gift cards or other very popular products).
The second type of phishing action consists in receiving messages from a service requesting the updating of identification data, in order to avoid deleting the account. All these messages very well mimic the appearance and way of addressing the real service, which is why you have to make sure of certain things when you provide your personal data.
What security measures can you take when providing confidential data
The first thing you need to know is that confidential information, especially bank information (card number, expiration date, CVV code, PIN), will never be requested by financial entities or online stores such as EVOLD.
We recommend you to avoid contests with participation conditions that are too good to be guaranteed. The most common mechanism encountered in such phishing actions is subscribing to the newsletter and guaranteed winning a gift card.
Always buy from known websites, which contain security elements that you can quickly identify. These are:
- HTTPS secure connection, marked by the presence of the protocol https:// and by the symbol of a closed lock, both displayed before the website address;
- The real address of the website, in our case, is: https://evold.eu.
Version 1.1.3 dated 03/04/2023