- $4 and its sister company, $4, made a quiz that you can use to test your prowess at spotting phishing emails designed to gain access to your personal information.
- The quiz shows you eight fishy email templates to see whether you can tell the legitimate emails from those intended to steal your data.
- The average user receives $4, so it's more important than ever to be aware of what to look out for when sorting through your inbox.
Phishing emails aren't always as obvious as Nigerian princes asking for money.
Hackers have advanced in their practices, and it's become a lot harder to tell whether that suspicious-looking email is legit. In fact, more than 75% of organizations surveyed in an $4 said they had experienced phishing attacks in 2017.
This is why Google and Jigsaw - a security-focused tech incubator owned by Alphabet, Google's parent company - teamed up to $4 that measures your ability to determine which emails seem to be phishing attempts. The eight-question quiz takes you through various email examples where you can decide whether the emails are designed to gain access to your passwords and sensitive information.
The examples in the quiz are inspired by real phishing emails, Google says. This includes a $4 from hackers that sent emails with fake Google Doc links.
Here's how the quiz works.
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