Internet fraudsters are increasingly taking advantage of the deepening recession to dupe unsuspecting email recipients. The e-mail often includes a request for personal details on the pretense of receiving some financial reward, which later leads to fraud.
Common themes include prize wins, inheritance claims, money mule schemes and, increasingly, recession-beating scams. Read the full story [websense.com]
Internet fraudsters are increasingly taking advantage of the deepening recession to dupe unsuspecting email recipients. The e-mail often includes a request for personal details on the pretense of receiving some financial reward, which later leads to fraud.
Common themes include prize wins, inheritance claims, money mule schemes and, increasingly, recession-beating scams. Read the full story [websense.com]
Emails try to lure victims with malicious documents claiming to have information about voting interference.
Messages that threaten people to ‘vote for Trump or else’ are part of foreign adversaries’ attempts to interfere with the Nov. 3 election, according to feds.
BEC fraudsters now have bases of operation across at least 39 counties and are responsible for $26 billion in losses annually — and growing.
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