Hello everyone,

For those of you not aware of the phrase "phishing" (pronounced fishing), it's a scam where someone tries to fool you into giving some personal information such as your SIN, birth date, or some username and password information. Some of these scams don't ask you to simply email the information as that would be too obvious. Instead, they take you to a web site that can look very much like the actual site for a bank or for, in the example below, Microsoft.

Below is a screen capture of a phishing example I recently received. It came to my President@malmoplains.com email and I almost clicked on the link because we've recently moved to O365 at my work. It was only when I noticed the details in the diagram that I realized it's a scam. Please pay attention to stuff like this to make sure you don't get fooled.

Ken Hemmerling

President, Malmo Plains Community League