News Think you're good at identifying scams? Try this!

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/07/27/scammers_test/1

McAfee has created a 10-question test to see if your scam-detecting skills are up to par.

 

9/10 I’m shocked! I got the capital one wrong. Damn, I knew the template looked dodgy but it looked so convincing. It got hard when they took the site addresses away. I even had to check Amazon to see what colour that parcel at the top is, red or green.

 

6/10 though I did this in a rush , I feel ashamed of myself

 

8/10 - not bad I suppose. Quite an interesting little test.

 

10/10 just look for grammar mistakes, I make enough but major companies shouldn't

 

10/10 for me. Some of them were a bit more tricky though, it has to be said.

 

8/10, I just look for key features.

 

Darn, Java is blocked here at work. Will have to wait till I get home.

 

10/10, far too easy

If scammers learnt some grammar we'd all be stuffed though, although the Paypal email was tricky as i couldn't do my usual trick of hovering over the link and seeing where it pointed.

Anyway if that's the worst scammers have got i will sleep easier

 

9/10. Most of these were unbelievably obvious. That being said, we're with computers often, so it's no surprise to us that we'd catch what typical users would miss.

 

9/10 missed the Bank of America one. I usually check the url to see if the site is a scam.

 

10/10

 

Also missed that one... 8/10 (didn't know about the The Nigerian 419 scam...)

 

9/10...got the bank of america one wrong cause I didn't read the text errors. good thing I don't use them.
I used to get the Nigerian scams all the time.

 

Rating: Safety Guru

10/10 on my first try.

 

10/10. Way too easy for people like us bit-tech readers. But your average Joe Sixpack using his interweb connectrolla wouldn't catch many of them.

 

10/10. Although I guessed on the Amazon site. I didn't notice the errors on the page and just clicked on the one that looked right. I should really have only got 9/10 I suppose.

Andy

 

9/10. I lost on the amazon one. Thing is that I would always check the address bar before anything else if I suspected a phishing attack so the questions without it were a bit pointless.

Also if I get a link in an email to a shopping/banking website then I'll always just type in in the address bar anyway to avoid any problems.

 

9/10 - got the last question wrong! Gah!

 

I did the same with the amazon one, I didn't pick up on the error, it just didn't look right esp the links at the bottom.