How to prevent phishing attacks?

1. What is phishing?

 The phishing attack is a fraudulent criminal process that disguising to others so that they can obtain the personal sensitive information such as username, password, capital and identity card. These letters are all claimed themselves to come from official centers , operation offices, customer service or network managers, in order to worm their way into victim's trust.

2. Transmission Route of Phishing

 Through Computer Virus: By cloning a website looks exactly the same as hotcoin.top , those criminals can use the computer virus programs, junk software to send the fake website address to user’s computer, or put these fake address on search sites to trick users to login the fake websites, so that they can steal the account ,password information , or assets of users .

 Through SMS:  Criminals will pretended as the staffs of Hotcoin.top and sending scam text messages to hotcoin users, and claimed that users had won a big prize or their account has been stolen, then they’ll required users to login the website written the SMS and do the identity verification. The point is, the website in SMS is the fake one established by those criminals, in order to steal personal information from users, if users login the website to process any operations, account and password information of users will be stolen by the criminals.

 Establish A Fake Webste: Criminals will establish a fake website, and release the fake activities messages in social platforms or websites like QQ and Wechat , such activities will promise people with rich prizes but usually just pie in the sky, once the users are log into these fake website, their account and password information will be stolen by criminals.

 Through Pretending As Official Mailbox: Criminals will sending large amount of fraudulent e-mails to trick users to log into the fake website, these e-mails will use reasons of giving prizes or updating systems to ask receivers to click on the linking address within the mail, and log on the interface much the same as hotcoin web pages; Once users input their account & password information on this assigned interface, these personal information will be stolen.

3. Anti Phishing

Use A Safely Google Chrome Browser, and update it to the latest version.

 Note: Chrome browser is the Google product and the security of which is the highest. Upgrading to the latest version is due to many security weakness might occur in the lower version chrome browser, take the "Punycode phishing attack" link for example: httpsblog. csdn. netqq_27446553 articledetails 70255763

Don't install browser plug-ins easily.

Note: Browser plug-ins have a very high-level permissions thus will risk user accounts being stolen, like the "User-Agent Switcher Backdoor Event” under the Chrome.

 Do not open any linking addresses that’s not trustworthy, do not enter the account， password or personal information of hotcoin on unknown website, in case personal information being stolen by phishing website or internet trojan virus .

 Install anti-virus softwares and regularly scan the computers and mobile phones to kill computer virus .

 Updating system patches regularly;

 Do not sending the official authentication code to others.

 Please confirm if the domain name is belonging to hotcoin.top before you log in our website or process operations related to transactions, please consult to the customer service for the unknown & uncertain domains.