Phishing E-mail Filtering

What are Phishing E-mails?

Phishing e-mails are scams that fool victims into giving personal information or bank details through spoof websites. The e-mail appears to have been sent from an organisation (usually a bank) and informs the victim of an issue with their account. The victim is directed to a spoof website where they are prompted for their login details. Phishing is a form of identity theft and once your details have been entered into the spoof site the fraudsters can gain access to your accounts or commit other crimes using your persona.

1&1 Phishing E-mail Filtering

In cooperation with our technology partners, 1&1 has improved and extended the anti-spam scheme in all its e-mail applications to combat both spam and Phishing threats. The new and improved anti-spam and anti-phishing scheme does not only screen the subject and origin of an e-mail, it scans incoming mails for URLs and checks them against known list of phishing URLs.

This scheme effectively protects you from the damaging fraudulent activities common on the Internet today, so that you are safe from identity theft, theft of your credit card data or other sensitive information transmitted via the Internet.

Phishing and spam continue to pose a threat because these programmes are written all the time and the only way to beat them is to always stay ahead of the game. This is precisely what the new anti-phishing solution promises to deliver - to use tomorrow's technology to fight today's threat.

You can rest assured that your data have the best protection from e-mail-borne threats.