Cyber Criminals will send an email to you pretending to be someone or an organisation you know to entice you to click onto a link or open an attachment. 

See below for an example of a Cyber Criminal trying to disguise themselves as MyGov. If you look closely at their email address, you can see that the sender is not using a MyGov email.

To help protect yourself from phishing emails, carefully check the sender’s email address to ensure that they come from a legitimate organisation or person.