---
title: "How to recognize phishing emails and protect yourself"
description: "Criminals use so-called phishing emails to try to take over customer accounts. We have tips for you to protect yourself."
published_date: "2024-05-09"
author: "Alex Chen, netcup.blog Technical Lab"
canonical_url: "https://netcup.blog/en/blog/news-phishing-e-mails-erkennen.md"
language: "en"
category: "News & Updates"
---

# How to recognize phishing emails and protect yourself

> **Summary / Key Takeaways**: Criminals use so-called phishing emails to try to take over customer accounts. We have tips for you to protect yourself.

![Wie du Phishing-E-Mails erkennen und dich schützen kannst](https://www.netcup.com/uploads/phishing_news_6681b58640.png)

**Criminals use so-called phishing emails to try to take over customer accounts.**

**We have published helpful tips to help you protect yourself.**

Phishing is a technique used to obtain access data from third-party customer accounts and then misuse them for various purposes. Phishing involves using fake emails to trick recipients into providing login details on a fake website. However, your access data does not end up with the company that the site is modeled after, but with criminals.

We at netcup were also affected by various waves of phishing. These cannot be ruled out in the future either. In some cases, specific techniques are even used to only contact netcup customers: For example, lists of domains are looked through. It is then checked whether the domain is actually hosted by netcup and only in this case such an email is sent.

We have one to protect our customers[Article in our help center](https://www.netcup.com/de/helpcenter/dokumentation/sicherheit/phishing-vermeidung?ref=258418)published. He gives you various hints and tips so that you don't become a victim of such fraud.

- What does netcup do to prevent phishing emails from being sent in their name?
- How do I recognize a phishing email?
- I received and recognized a phishing email. How do I proceed?
- I suspect I've already fallen for a phishing email. What can I do?

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