How do you avoid becoming a phishing victim?

If you are not expecting an email with an attachment from your friend then ignore it. If it is not from a friend, then delete it. Occasionally, thumb through your junk mail and look for similarly sounding emails. Many times just a few word changes will allow a lure to slip through when your filter has trapped similar emails. Emails from banks and other financial type sites such as eBay and PayPal should be examined closely. Emails from Microsoft, HP, and Dell claiming to have patches should also raise a red flag. It's not that these companies do not care to update you, but they would likely not reach out to you "personally." When you receive a suspect email, carefully "mouse-over" the link. If it is a phishing site you will see that it ends in something like "paypal.mysite.biz/login.html." It is the "mysite.biz" that provides the clue that this is a bad site, so don't bite.
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