Posts Tagged ‘legitimacy’

Syrian Crisis Reminds Us to Beware of ‘Charity’ Scams

Jun

2013

The dismal situation in Syria has gained considerable sympathy in the rest of the world. Unfortunately, playing on our emotions is a typical strategy of cybercriminals. Today I received an email calling for donations to be made to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to help Syrian refugees.This mail appeared very professional and […]

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Email Threats Highlights: Chase Phish, LinkedIn, American Express Open and Verizon Wireless Spam

Jan

2013

In this week’s Email Threats roundup, we are highlighting spam and phishing campaigns that have made a comeback, such as LinkedIn and Chase spam, but take advantage of different social engineering lures this time around. You Know It’s Awkward When.you receive an email notification that claims to originate from LinkedIn, saying you have an event […]

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Earn money from safety at home

Jan

2013

Today, I received an email from one of my coworkers (yes, even careful employees of security vendors are in danger:) ). This email has more recipients and contains only one link, without any text or subject.Fortunately, I am a really paranoid person about emails containing only a link to an unknown site. At this link, […]

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