Amazon email scams can steal your life savings or identity. Know the red flags and how to protect your finances from fraudsters.
How to identify real PayPal emails An email from PayPal will: Come from paypal.com. Scammers can easily fake the “friendly name,” but it’s more difficult to fake the full name. A sender like “PayPal Service (zxk1942R3@gmail.com)" is not a message from PayPal. But sophisticated sc...
In this email example, it states that it comes from a DHL well known and reputable place; however, clicking on the email and signature opens a page that is not on this domain. But you don’t have to click on the link to check this. On a computer, when you hover over a link in ...
How to Identify International Students Scams: Part 3 – Protection This blog is the final post in our three-part series about scams targeting international students who, like everyone else, can be a victim of identity theft, fraud, or another type of loss. It is the uncertainty of being in...
Phishing email scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated and harder to spot. Nowadays, an email from your bank or from a scammer looks almost identical, so what are the giveaway signs? We’ll run through the types of scam emails you can expect and what to look out for. PUBLISHED ON Ju...
How to identify fraudulent emails and messages The email or phone number doesn't match the company it's supposedly coming from. The email or phone number they contacted you is not the one you supplied the company in the first place.
Has an Apple phishing email ever slipped into your inbox? If the message asked for payment information or pressured you to click on a link, chances are you've been the target of an Apple phishing scam. Learn how to identify Apple ID phishing scams and how Avast One can protect your ...
Now that you know how to identify email scams and protect yourself, all that’s left is to dispose of these messages.Reporting scams helps identify and stop them – or at least slow scammers down. We recommend reporting to: The government:Use the Federal Trade Commission’s fraud email addr...
With a reverse IP lookup, you can tell if the apparent sender is the real one, as well as where the email actually came from. You can use an online reverse lookup tool to identify the domain name associated with the IP address. This is, in effect, an email spoofing test. If the IP...
We see Nigerian Prince emails and think it’s pretty obvious that no random stranger wants to give us $100 million. We create a false sense of security in our heads that all scams are that easy to identify. But in the moment, it’s not always that far outside of what you expect. ...