Have you taken the Phishing IQ test?

http://www.mailfrontier.com/forms/msft_iq_test.html

I achieved 8 out of 10... spotted all the phishing emails just fine, but also attributed falsity to two legitimate ones... go figure...  better safe than sorry, I suppose.  I'd have been real grumpy with myself if I'd marked a phish as legitimate...

Published Fri, Mar 31 2006 13:07 by sandi
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# re: Have you taken the Phishing IQ test?

Friday, March 31, 2006 7:46 AM by Garth
I only got a 7 of 10 but I'm from Canada, so any time I get a bank email is it always a Phishing message. :-) Of the ones that are valid in Canada I got 4 out of 5, however I would never use Capital one so… ;-)
MSN
PayPal
eBay
Amazon
Capital One --- I would never use them so it must be a Phishing message.

# re: Have you taken the Phishing IQ test?

Friday, March 31, 2006 12:06 PM by Byron Todd
IIRC, I got only 6 out of 10 but I correctly id'd all of the "real" phishing attempts.

The problem I have with the test is more basic, because they are forcing you to make some assumptions - which are not given - to correctly id the non-phishing attempts. *Spoiler follows* - the example email of "your account ending in 8932 (or whatever the number was)". I received multiple phishing attempts using this exact method - however, knowing that I do not have an account ending in 8932 made it stand out as a phishing attempt. For the general public to be able to take that test and correctly (according to their key for the test) id that as a non phishing attempt, the test needs to state "You have account ending in 8932...."

Byron

# re: Have you taken the Phishing IQ test?

Monday, April 03, 2006 9:54 PM by Jamie Murdock
I too was not duped, but only scored 7 out of 10. As I read the "why" explanations, I was told each time to "play it safe" and consider the email suspicious.

This one http://www.mailfrontier.com/quiztest2/answers/why_q9.html really confused me, it called it legit then seemed to explain why it wasn't!

I think that not being duped by any of them should be a complete win, and there should be no such thing as overcautious.