If you just placed an order that shipped via UPS, and then you get an email about your recent order being delayed, you may be likely to click it. With so many online orders being shipped during the holiday season, people are more likely to click something they wouldn’t normally click. The email originates from a suspicious email address, and a “something just doesn’t seem right” type of feeling comes over you.Hovering over the “Manage your refunds!” hyperlink unveils the suspicious website.There are often telltale signs of fraudulent activity in these messages, including: Presidential election.Īs this August 2016 article from .uk explains, people are being duped into handing over their bank details upon receipt of a fake invoice like the one below. That phishing attack setup a major email release by WikiLeaks… something that may have contributed to Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump in the U.S. The IT team at the campaign confirmed the email was “real” and provided a Google specific link to change the password (and suggested he set up two-factor authentication).Īpparently, rather than using the Google link, the password change was initiated from the original phishing email, and Mr. On March 19th, 2016, John Podesta (Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Chairman) received an email from “Google.” The email said someone in Ukraine had his password and tried to sign into his account. Here are four examples of phishing campaigns that caused, or can cause, major problems. After all, the crooks only need to get it right a few times to make a tidy sum and ruin our holiday. We have to defend ourselves correctly every time one of these rotten eggs arrives in our Inbox.
And they’ve gotten really good at fooling us – painfully good. That’s right, the bad actors have been very naughty in 2016 delivering millions of fraudulent messages trying to entice trustworthy people to move money from their wallet to the bad guys’ wallets. ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” But you can bet your Inbox received at least one lump of coal in the form of a phishing email.
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