الأسبوع 10 · المحور الثاني، الدرس ٣ «سرية كلمة المرور»: كلمات المرور والتصيد والمصادقة متعددة العوامل · 3 دروس
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Phishing and smishing: spot the signs
ICT P5 Term 1, Theme 2: pp. 54–57
GoalSpot the signs of phishing and smishing messages and know what to do.
New words
phishing · a message that looks real but is a trick to get your detailssmishing · phishing by text messagesuspicious · looking wrong so that you should be carefulsender · the person or company a message comes from
Explanation
Imagine a stranger in a uniform knocking at your door, saying, ‘You won a prize! Give me your key and your mother’s bank number quickly!’ You would not give them. A phishing message does the same on a screen. It looks real but is a trick. When it comes by text message, it is called smishing. Signs: a surprise prize, a hurry (‘in one hour!’), a request for private details, spelling mistakes, a sender you do not know. What to do: do not click anything, do not answer, do not call a number in it, and show a grown-up. Nobody is in trouble for getting such a message. Today we practise on an invented message on paper.
Invented message
What it says
From
a sender you do not know
Subject
YOU WON a free tablet!!
Text
Click NOW in one hour and send your adress and your mother’s card number
Worked examples
Jana gets a text: ‘Your bike won a prize. Reply with your address now!’ She sees three signs: surprise prize, hurry, and a request for her address. She does not reply and shows her mother.
Omar’s tablet shows a pretend message from his ‘school’. It has two spelling mistakes and the sender is not the real school. Omar tells his teacher, who thanks him.
Habiba’s cousin says, ‘I clicked a link by mistake.’ Habiba says, ‘Stay calm. Tell a grown-up. You are not in trouble.’
Class activity
Message detective. Read the pretend message in the table. Draw a circle around every sign of phishing, and count them. Then write your own pretend phishing message with at least three signs. Swap with a partner, who must circle the signs. Finish by writing the three things you do when you get a suspicious message.
Practice
1
What is phishing?
A message that looks real but is a trick to get your details.
2
What do we call phishing by text message?
Smishing.
3
Name three signs of a phishing message.
For example: a surprise prize, a hurry, a request for private details, spelling mistakes, an unknown sender.
