Phishing and Social Engineering

Learn how suspicious messages create pressure and how to report them safely.

What you will learn

I can recognize suspicious message patterns and choose a safe report route before clicking, replying, or downloading.

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Reduces phishing, malware, and social-engineering risk while creating annual security-awareness evidence.

I can recognize suspicious message patterns and choose a safe report route before clicking, replying, or downloading.

Pause before you click, verify the request, and report suspicious messages through the approved channel.

Use optional practice to try the decision pattern with safe sample content before applying it to real workplace systems.

Save a short, privacy-safe note that explains what you checked, what decision you made, and what you would do next.

What should happen before you act on this request?

A request arrives with urgency, but the sender, account, tool, or data involved does not match the normal workplace route.