Think before you click and be aware of phishing

On this page you will find good advice on how to avoid falling for phishing mails and SMS. You can also download posters to hang up.

Good advice on phishing

Aarhus University, Nets and other legitimate banks, companies and government authorities will never ask you for your personal passwords, MitID, NemID code card or the like. If you receive a request to provide this kind of information, don’t respond.

Scammers are good at making mails and text messages look genuine. If you are in doubt, check the official website of the sender.

Cybercriminals will try to entice you to click links or open attached files. But there are a number of clues that will reveal these fakes: If you hover the mouse over a link in a mail, you can see where the link will take you if you click it. Instead of clicking the direct link to the sender’s website, find the official website online and use the search function to see if you can find the same content.

If you suspect that the sender of a mail might be a scammer, search the internet and check the email address or telephone to make sure the information is correct. Or you can contact the company or government authority via their official website or telephone number and ask for a confirmation that the communication is genuine.

Scammers often try to get you to act quickly. If you get an unsolicited mail or text message, it’s a good idea not to respond immediately: wait until you have time to think twice before you answer.

Contact your local IT support if you have questions, comments or need help.

Phishing is an attempt to cheat you into providing conficential data by

email (phishing - fishing)
SMS (smishing - 'SMS fishing')
phone (vishing - short for 'voice phishing', to fish information by using your voice)

Be like Bob This is Bob. Be like Bob. This is the message of a new video about how to react if you happen to fall for a phishing mail.

The quiz is a social activity made for a staff meeting (e.g. via Teams or Zoom) etc.
The quiz will take approx. 15 minutes.
We recommend that you facilitate the quiz yourself or appoint a facilitator who can play the quiz, read the slides out loud and encourage the participants to vote.
The participants must open https://www.menti.com/ on their computer or phone and enter the code from slide 2 in the quiz.
The participants are presented with 7 emails. After each email they will be asked whether or not an email is a phishing email or not. They can vote via menti.com.

If you have used Mentimeter before, sign in via https://www.mentimeter.com/.
If you have not used Mentimeter before, go to https://www.mentimeter.com/join/aarhus, type in your AU email address, verify it via the email you receive. Then register with your name and a password.
Choose My presentations and the Shared Templates in the left side menu.
Find the quiz 'Can you spot a phishing email?' (NB! The quiz is available in Danish and English).
Choose 'Add to my presentations'.
Now, you can find the quiz in My presentations.
Click the play icon to play the quiz at a staff meeting etc.