Email Phishing Attacks
What You Need to Know About Phishing Attacks
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SA Post Office Warns Customers of New Email Scam
Image sourced from isnews.stir.ac.uk The South African Post Office has sent an alarm to customers about fraudulent e-mails that are designed to make the receiver pay money into a scam account. The bogus emails appear as if they are coming from the Post Office and are titled, “Your package could not be delivered”. They also state that in order for a customer to receive their package they have to pay a certain fee and they include a link, according to Tech Central. “Should the receiver click on the link, a page called Bureau de Poste d’Afrique du Sud opens, requesting payment to ‘release’ the fictitious parcel. The official language of communication for the Post Office is English and no communication is done in French. The website features a photo of the gable of the historic Vredefort post ...
How to Be Safe From the “Reset Password” Email Scam
Image sourced form Broad Media Most online services have built-in security systems that alert employees when the systems detect “unusual” activity on their accounts. For example, legitimate email services or similar will send notifications about attempts to reset the phone number and e-mail address linked to the account, or the password. Of course, as soon as such messages became commonplace, enterprising cybercriminals tried to imitate this mechanism to attack corporate users. As cyberattacks rely on the human factor more often each year, and as cybersecurity technologies progress, such tricks are becoming more and more common and are being registered in multiple mailouts around the world. The scenario is usually as follows: if it’s a public online service attacker it will usually make ev...
