How to Identify a Phishing Website

This article describes how phishing websites operate and gives six practical tips for identifying fraudulent sites—check URLs and TLS, watch for redirects and shorteners, inspect content and contact details, verify how you arrived at the site, read independent reviews, check payment methods, and perform WHOIS lookups—and it recommends organizational defenses such as integrated cloud email security (ICES) with link rewriting, URL inspection, and time-of-click analysis to block phishing links.