Email Impersonation Email impersonation is a type of cyberattack where someone sends an email that appears to come from a trusted source, such as a colleague, boss, vendor, or company, in order to trick the recipient into taking an action—like clicking a malicious link, downloading an attachment, or transferring money or sensitive data. Also very […]
How to Avoid Email Scams (Seriously—Read This) Scammers are getting slick. One of their favorite tricks is setting up fake Microsoft sign-in pages that look almost identical to the real thing. Their goal? To get you to hand over your email password without thinking twice. If you don’t read anything else in this guide, remember […]
Artificial Intelligence is already being used by hackers to mimic your voice combined with misuse of other technology that allows them to spoof your phone number. So imagine you get a phone call from your boss asking you to read off sensitive information that he/she urgently needs.
Many people assume that an email is safe if it comes from someone they know. That’s a dangerous assumption. The most lethal emails we see clients open did, in fact, come from someone they knew. That’s part of the vicious cycle of phishing emails.
Scammers are using the legitimate Intuit Quickbooks payment service to collect money for products and services that were never ordered or delivered. At least a small percentage of people fall for this scam without ever realizing it while the scammers happily collect their money.
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