G DATA Phishing Simulation

Sending a test email

In G DATA Awareness Manager you will find, under the Whitelisting tab, the option to send a test email to your mailbox. This allows you to test whether the phishing emails we send later also pass through your security controls.

1.

First, send the test email by clicking the corresponding button in the G DATA Awareness Managers interface.

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G DATA Phishing Simulation Testmail versenden

2.

Close the G DATA Awareness Manager. Otherwise, for technical reasons, problems may occur when verifying the email.

3.

Open your mailbox via the Outlook web client (outlook.office.com) and check your inbox to see whether you have received an email.

4.

Click the email once. Under no circumstances should the email be opened with a double-click, as our server would immediately detect opening the email as a security violation. As a result, verification is no longer possible.

If this happens by accident, you can easily restart the process at step one.

5.

If the verification code is not displayed because you have (correctly) blocked downloading images, click the Show blocked content button (see screenshot).

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G DATA Phishing Simulation Testmail

6.

Click the Confirm whitelisting button.

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G DATA Phishing Simulation Testmail

7.

Enter the code from the test email, confirm that the attachment was still present, and then click Submit.

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G DATA Phishing Simulation Testmail verifizieren

8.

After step seven, the G DATA Awareness Manager login window opens.
Sign in and check whether, under the Whitelisting tab, the test email has been marked with a green checkmark.

If a red X is shown there, something went wrong. Check whether the Whitelisting was performed correctly and whether additional security software may need to be taken into account.
You can repeat the process as often as necessary starting from step one.
Rückmeldung der Whitelistingmail