Ways to Protect the Bigpond Email from Phishing Emails

Posted by ABC on January 23rd, 2018

Today, Phishing emails are very common problem which arises when someone tries to trick you to share your personal information online. In short it is termed as phishing attack because by using Phishing scams they try to obtain your personal and financial details. Generally, you feel that these emails have been received from trustworthy resources, but this is not true. Phishing is done usually through email, ads or by sites that look similar to the sites that you use. If you are wondering what to do next once you received the phishing email, then you can take help of experts by dialing Bigpond email support number. In this article we are discussing the steps that you have to follow whenever you receive any such emails.

The first thing that you need to do is report a phishing email. Below mentioned are the steps that you can follow for reporting it. The steps are as:

• Firstly, you have to login in the Bigpond email account.
• Then you have to open that Phishing message from your inbox.
• There you will find the down arrow on which you have to click.
• Now, you have to click on ‘Report Phishing’ which will actually report that email as suspicious.

Before reporting the Phishing email, you must ensure that you don’t reply to such emails. You must never open any attachment or click on any such links which is found to be suspicious. After reporting about the email, you must delete it completely. Sometimes you may find that there are emails that are sent by Bigpond or Telstra, but the matter is something suspicious then without delay you should contact Bigpond email help team. They will provide you confirmation whether such an email has been sent by Bigpond itself or not.

In order to protect yourself from such emails you have to follow few set of rules. These rules are only for proving some basic relief from phishing emails but there are chances even after following these rules you still receive something suspicious then you must take the support of Bigpond email help team. Let’s discuss the rules in detail:

• You must never follow any such link or sites that you find suspicious especially those which you can’t trust, or you have never noticed such sites before.
• If you find the sites which you trust, then also you should enter the URL into the browser address bar rather than simply clicking on the link that your received.
• You must never respond to the requests for personal information in an unexpected email or pop up window. There are complete chances that such unexpected emails are phishing emails.
• In order to block unsolicited and unwanted emails you must always use a spam filter.

Phishing emails bear the same risk as the risk of a hacked account. So, whenever you find anything such in your email account you should dial Bigpond email support number and take the help of experts who would guide your instantly with valuable suggestions.