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Which of the following is/are the primary reasons to fall in the trap of Email fraud or phishing? 

A) Paying attention to lucrative offers. 

B) Not checking on links or attachments from unknown senders 

C) Providing official information via email 

D) Paying attention to the company logo sent in the email

The correct answer is

A, B, C Only

Phishing and email fraud are social-engineering attacks in which criminals send deceptive emails to trick victims into revealing sensitive data (passwords, bank details, OTPs) or into clicking malicious links and attachments. The question asks for the behaviours or lapses on the victim's side that make people fall into such a trap.

Examining each statement:

  • Paying attention to lucrative offers — Fraudsters bait people with prize money, lottery wins, refunds or unbelievable discounts. Chasing such offers is a classic reason victims get hooked.
  • Not checking on links or attachments from unknown senders — Clicking or opening files from unverified senders installs malware or leads to fake login pages, so failing to check them is a major cause of compromise.
  • Providing official information via email — Sharing confidential or official details over email, especially in reply to an unsolicited request, hands the attacker exactly what they want. Legitimate institutions rarely ask for such data by email.

Therefore the reasons people fall for phishing are the first three statements together, which matches A, B, C Only.

The statement about paying attention to the company logo is excluded because a logo alone is not, by itself, the operative reason a person is defrauded — logos are trivially copied by attackers, so noticing a logo neither reliably causes nor prevents victimisation in the way the other three behaviours do. Options that stop at only one statement (A) or only two (A, B) leave out genuine contributing behaviours such as freely providing official information, so they are incomplete; the combination that also adds the logo statement wrongly includes a factor that is not among the keyed reasons. Only the grouping of the first three statements is correct.

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Important Questions from Network Security

  1. A ________ is a system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network.

  2. ______ changes each time it is installed to avoid detection by antivirus software.

  3. What is a key security advantage of deploying a DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) using two separate firewalls, rather than a single firewall setup?

  4. Which one of the following is usually used in the process of Wi-fi hacking?

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