What to do to avoid phishing sites

[Masplanc]

Thanks for the information, there are more phishing site like this that are not real, one need to be extremely carefully.  People create all this fake site to scam people  and the rate of this is increasing daily.

[BernyJB]

One thing I forgot: DON'T USE GOOGLE!
Google is very convenient and full featured, but they collect your data and sell it. Use Duck Duck Go as a search engine. Not as pretty, but they don't touch your stuff.

[MrcMrc]

One thing I forgot: DON'T USE GOOGLE!
Google is very convenient and fully featured, but they collect your data and sell it. Use Duck Duck Go as a search engine. Not as pretty, but they don't touch your stuff.

I use Google a lot and I have not encountered any phishing attack simply because am very careful with the kind of links I click on and I often store my details such as password and credit cards on google.

[jerry0]

Did visiting any of those sites without downloading the program cause issues though?

[DdmrDdmr]

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Sites like the ones mentioned here don’t just aim for you to download something (normally malware on its own or bundled as part of the installer’s task), but they also may prompt you to provide information that ranges from personal and contact information, login credential, through to crypto mnemonics.

Besides, in general terms, the person that lands on this sort of page may not have a clue that he’s actually on a phishing site, and that is the core danger to begin with. Even if you purposely visit it to take a sneak-peak knowingly, you need to be careful with your browser history and configuration thereafter, since your browser may autofill to the phishing site later on because you has previously visited it (when typing what you think is the proper url).