You have a new message. Between jokes from friends, newsletters and order confirmations, it happens that our inbox is overwhelmed with emails of all kinds. Among them, sometimes slips a phishing attempt – or phishing in French – intended to steal your personal information.

This fraudulent technique consists in usurping the identity of a trusted third party to obtain your password, your bank details, your address, your telephone number… Or any other data likely to interest the crooks. To deceive you, the latter do not hesitate to pretend to be a member of your family, for your bank adviser, for the customer service of an e-commerce… Recently, there has been a resurgence of this type of scams. Check out the top 5 emails not to open this week in our slideshow below.

The approach of the bandits can be done by email, but also by SMS, or by phone call. To protect yourself against this, certain good practices must be followed: