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Phishing scammers need a little help scamming you!

Russian phishing scammers pretending to be the UPS, sending you a UPS Tracking number through FilesTube. Confused? Well we are!

Britis Airways E-ticket Phishing scam

Your Verizon Wireless bill from the IRS. Wow, they must be serious about collecting the outstanding amount, because they called fridaysug85 to do the collection!

The shortest phishing scam e-mail ever!

This phishing scammer decided to skip the normal mumbo jumbo and just send the phishing link.

Another lame attempt at defrauding honest tax-paying South Africans. These phishing scammers could have at least used a better logo in their e-mail.

A Yahoo Notification from AOL? Are the phishing scammers getting confused?

An e-mail from Yahoo (or is that AOL?) to Yahoo about your mailbox exceeding its limits... What limits? Are you confused yet?

An extremely legitimate looking phishing scam aimed at NatWest credit card holders.

Phishing scammers targeting Nedbank customers with malware.

Malware phishing scammers targeting ABSA customers with the ZBot Trojan.

A very lame attempt at defrauding Yahoo! users.

A Liberty Life Debit Order Authorization from Microsoft, via Standard Bank. This is enough to make anyone confused. Clearly these phishing scammers did not think this one through.

A very convincing Paypal Phishing scam. No matter how hard they try, to the trained eye, it will always be obvious that this is a scam.

An eBay phishing scammer trying to pique your curiosity.

A fake Chase e-mail that has PHISHING written all over it.

The most confusing Paypal phishing scam ever!

Phishing scammers using UCount awards as bait to steal your Standard Bank Internet Banking login details.

We would like to warn our visitors about the latest phishing scam trend involving very legitimate looking e-mails containing an HTML attachment that redirects to the actual phishing site. This method seems to be very effective and a lot of people are tricked by this. Review the comments section of this scam example and make sure you apply these hints to every e-mail that appears to be from your bank to distinguish the fake e-mails from the real ones. Feel free to contact us if you have doubts about the legitimacy of an e-mail that your received.

In the last few months, multiple groups of attackers successfully compromised corporate email accounts of at least 156 high-ranking officers at various firms based in Germany, the UK, Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Dubbed 'PerSwaysion,' the newly spotted cyberattack campaign leveraged Microsoft file-sharing services—including Sway, SharePoint, and OneNote—to launch highly targeted

Phishing is incredibly common, yet most people feel it has gotten harder to spot in recent years. Cyber criminals rely on their knowledge of human psychology to make you do things you wouldn’t normally do. They also know that if they scare you enough they can manipulate you into doing what they want you to […]

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At least one American Dental Association member has reported receiving a phishing email appearing to come from an address containing ADA President Chad P. Gehani's name and including a link to "view member's details."

The Association is asking member dentists and their dental teams to increase their vigilance over phishing emails as a result of the coronavirus, known as COVID-19.
Attackers often use emergencies as an opportunity to send fake emails tailored to that situation, the association said.

Watch out for suspicious interview requests. 'The main focus of this phishing campaign was stealing email account information of the victims, and finding information about their contacts/networks,' the cybersecurity experts at Certfa Lab warned on Wednesday.

Deepfakes, or doctored videos, have mostly been used to harm the reputations of celebrities and politicians. Now the AI-assisted technology is being used to trick companies out of big money.

In part 1 of this 3-part blog series, we’ll delve into phishing and take a look at how you can protect yourself by deploying a strategy of threat protection for your company.

Phishing. It’s been around for nearly three decades, and it’s not going away anytime soon. And, as we move into the 2020’s, phishing has expanded to a variety of different techniques that utilize fraudulent URLs, malicious attachments, and more.

As stated in our previous blogs, phishing messages rely on social engineering. Security awareness for all employees is key when it comes to protecting against phishing attacks due to the veil of lies within emails/links/attachments.