Informatics Practices
If you receive an email claiming to need your username and/or password, what should you do ?
- Report it as phishing/spam through your email provider
- Delete the message
- Reply to the message with your email and password
Computing Safety & Ethics
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Report it as phishing/spam through your email provider
Reason — If we receive an email asking for our username and/or password, we should report it as phishing/spam through our email provider.
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