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“We detected a recent spike in business email compromise (BEC) attacks soliciting gift cards primarily targeting K-12 school teachers. Attackers impersonate colleagues or school officials to ask recipients to purchase various gift cards,” Microsoft Security Intelligence warned.
The attackers create fake email accounts impersonating K-12 school personnel. The accounts are created based on publicly available information, which is harvested from various websites or social media platforms. They then use these accounts to send scam emails to their targets.
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