If a charity asks for payment through gift cards or cryptocurrency, that’s a red flag. Don’t give out more information than is reasonable. A charity does not need to know your Social Insurance or Social Security Number for tax purposes. If they ...
Figure 5. W-8 themed tax scam This scam uses social engineering verbiage to target nonresident aliens of the United States based on “official” records discovery. However, in a weird miscue, the email contains a contradictory statement: “if you are a USA citizen and resident, this W8BEN...
Imagine what you’d think if you received an email announcing “50 percetn off” or asking you to “submit you’re email.” Many of us would go to Google and search for the sender’s name and the word “scam.” Fortunately, in the age of spell-check and tools like Grammarly, there...
Find out what Business Email Compromise is, how different types of BEC can target companies, and what the consequence of this cybercrime is.
The emails often create a sense of urgency, claiming that there’s an issue with the recipient’s taxes or tax return. We wrote about IRS scams delivering the Emotet malware recently but it is just one example. The common theme for the IRS phishing scam emails is that these emails ...
I am actually asking for your consent to present you to the Bank as the Next of Kin/beneficiary of my late client's fund, since you have the same last name, so that the fund will be released to you as his next of kin. All the legal documents to back up your claim as my client...
Read our blog for email security tips, from avoiding phishing to strong passwords: What is a brushing scam? How to identify and report brushing April 28, 2025 - Who doesn’t love getting a package!? But wait – even though it’s addressed to you, you don’t remember ordering anything...
theres a new email going around, it asks you for you're credit card info. i did log in and am going to change pass.\ heres the text: Dear PayPal
Putting aside, for the moment, the bad grammar, the fact that we don’t have a webcam attached to our computers, and that claiming an email came from our own account is not a good threat to try on someone who works in the email marketing industry, this scam is the king daddy of ...
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