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6.4 billion fake emails sent every day

24
Aug
2018

The Valimail Q2 2018 Email Fraud Landscape shows that fake email continues to be a serious problem, with an estimated 6.4 billion fake emails sent every day. That total includes only exact-domain sender spoofing, in which senders put a fake email address in the From: field of their messages. This is one of the most […]

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Funeral home hacked; hackers use account for phishing scam

23
Oct
2017

Social engineering is one of the oldest tricks in the hacker book, used to target companies large and small. Psychological trickery to get employees to click on links, download infected documents or give away personal information via email is one of the top techniques still practiced by cybercriminals for fraud. Phishing schemes are common; they’ve […]

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Amazon UK customers targeted with phishing scam

18
Sep
2015

Researchers at Malwarebytes spotted an email #phishing #scam on Wednesday that targets #amazon‘s #uk users. The emails, purporting to be from Amazon #customer service, falsely state that a small number of accounts were breached last month. The scammers tell the victims they are required to complete a “#verification process” or run the risk of having […]

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