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5 common signs of email fraud

Posted on February 7, 2024

Email phishing poses a huge threat to both individuals and organizations who heavily rely on email for communication. It is one of the methods cybercriminals use to commit wire fraud and pilfer sensitive information from unsuspecting victims.

Incredibly, phishing attempts are so prevalent that Google reports blocking a staggering 100 million phishing emails every day. In fact, nearly 1.2% of all emails sent are malicious, which, if you do the math, amounts to 3.4 billion fraudulent emails daily.  [Read more…]

Scam alert: Don’t fall for this dangerous PayPal email scam

Posted on January 31, 2024

As you probably know, scammers are constantly using phishing attempts to try to steal the login info for our financial accounts.

And sadly, they’re often successful.

While they certainly love stealing logins to victims’ bank accounts, the scammers seem to have a special love for scamming PayPal customers.  [Read more…]

Scam alert: Beware fake ads for concert and event tickets

Posted on January 31, 2024

All of the pent-up demand for concerts and other events caused by the Covid lock-downs created a new opportunity for the scammers of the world.

Ever since things opened back up there has been a spate of fake ads hawking deeply discounted tickets for concerts, professional sporting events, theme parks and a wide variety of other public events showing up on social media sites and landing in millions of email inboxes.  [Read more…]

Scam alert: Beware these fake “Microsoft Account Update” emails

Posted on January 24, 2024

Phishing scam attempts are distributed in many forms, but most of them arrive in our email Inboxes in the form of fraudulent emails.

The scammers are getting better at their evil craft by the day and it’s pretty hard to tell some of the fake emails from real ones.

Luckily, that isn’t the case with this latest round of phishing emails.

Here’s a screenshot one such email that landed in my Inbox this morning:  [Read more…]

Scam alert: Beware fake Gmail ‘account closure’ emails

Posted on January 24, 2024

There’s a very dangerous email scam making the rounds again, and as before it’s catching a lot of Gmail users off-guard.

As usual, the text of the email varies a bit, but the message conveyed is always the same.

The email claims to be from Google in response to a request to close your Gmail account.  [Read more…]

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