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各类钓鱼邮件的甄别(介绍钓鱼的经验英语警惕英文钓鱼邮件(轻则丢了钱财))

“phishing" --- 维基百科的解释

Phishing is the attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly money), often for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.The word is a neologism created as a homophone of fishing due to the similarity of using a bait in an attempt to catch a victim. 

生词点拨: 1. malicious 恶意的,蓄意的 2. masquerade 化妆,伪装  3. trustworthy 可靠的,可以信赖的  4. entity 实体,实在存在物 5. neologism 新词 6. homophone 同音异性异义字 7. bait 诱饵  8. victim 受害者

       ▲ 朗读者: Miss Sharon

Fisher 是渔夫的意思,就是以打渔为生的人,那么你知道“phisher”是什么意思吗?你也许猜到了,这个单词是网络钓鱼者的意思。phishing email 就是钓鱼邮件的意思。

现在网络发达,我们和外国人进行网络交流的时候,很容易就收到钓鱼邮件。我们来看看什么叫做钓鱼邮件:

Dear Higher Lee,

Thanks for your email.

We are Germany leading Buying Agent.Our goodwill and reputation in the consultancy firm is what we deliver to our esteemed customers and we assure you 100% good relationship in business.

Note that we have gone through your companys website and also your product attachment which will interest our esteemed customers, so We wish to express our interest in purchasing large quantity of your products.

Thus, we have uploaded the pictures of our required item numbers, sizes and quantity to our order placement link, so we advice you to go through our placement order link and view our desired items which we required from your company. We also require a slight modification in price to suit our specific customers need.

Please log in our order webpage ( http: xxxxxxx ) with your companys email and corresponding password to view our desired products which we required from your company. We hopefully wait for your Proforma invoice to be arranged soonest.

Best regards,

Ms. Sophia

单词词组学习:

goodwill   商誉,信誉

esteemed customer 尊敬的客户

go through   浏览, 翻阅

suit ones need  适合某人的需求

log in  登录

proforma invoice  形式发票

大家可以看到,这封邮件写得相当的好。英文很规范,用词和语法几乎无懈可击。但是就内容而言,这封邮件就是典型的钓鱼邮件。自称Sophia的人介绍了她们的公司以及采购需求。让我们登录到她所给的链接,然后输入邮箱地址还有密码,声称这样才可以看到她们所需要的产品的详细信息。后来还说请你们把商业发票准备好,潜台词就是说我们就要下单了,请你们放心吧。一切都装得很像模像样。没有经验的人,很容易就点击进去链接,然后输入密码。

这样的后果会是什么呢?当然是上当受骗。对于任何人,我们都没有理由轻易地交出自己的隐秘信息,比如银行账号密码,邮箱密码。如果有谁以任何名义向你提出这样的要求,那么他很有可能就是骗子。

外国的骗子,十分喜欢抓我们的心理:你急着和我成交生意,我就写一封邮件一步步引诱你上钩。一旦你泄露了信息,很有可能遭受惨重的损失。

所以,切记,遇到类似英文邮件,千万不要点击链接,更不要输入密码。除非你是土豪,真的是有钱可以任性的那种。

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