These days, almost everyday most people get an email saying that their account has been limited or frozen for some reason and to click the link in the email to unfreeze or unlimit the account and most of the time, these types of emails contain bogus links to phishing pages: web pages designed by scammers, that LOOK like the real website when they are not and are nothing more than attempts to get your username and password so the scammer can log into your account and do damage to your account or even your life.

Fortunately, detecting that a web page is a phishing page is really not that difficult and merely requires that you be extra cautious when clicking ANY link that takes you to a page to log in to an online account.

Here is how to check if a web page is a phishing web page:

  1. If you get an email with a link to log in to an online account, DON'T click it.
  2. Examine the url/web address of the link ...