Blog Post
Current Scams Circulating
Nov 29, 2018
Fake Tech Support Calls
The phone call at your office and a fake Microsoft person is investigating a malware attack. Sounding official and asking to access your desktop. Once being in installing ransomware and lock you out, extorting you or your company to pay a hefty fee in order to get your files back.
The phone call at your office and a fake Microsoft person is investigating a malware attack. Sounding official and asking to access your desktop. Once being in installing ransomware and lock you out, extorting you or your company to pay a hefty fee in order to get your files back.
"Look at This Resume"
An official-looking email comes from an unfamiliar name but with an attachment and request that sounds like it could be related to something you’d forgotten. Clicking the attachment and infecting your computer and possibly your whole company’s system with malware.
One-Ring Scam
A call comes in from an unknown number, rings once, and then stops. You call the number back not realising until later that you were automatically charged for a service you didn’t ask for.
A call comes in from an unknown number, rings once, and then stops. You call the number back not realising until later that you were automatically charged for a service you didn’t ask for.
Infection Detected
A pop-up add with graphics such as a big red X appears and alerts you that your computer might be infected with a virus. Click a link and pay $50 to scan and clear your system but computer will now be infected by new malware and other unpleasantness.
A pop-up add with graphics such as a big red X appears and alerts you that your computer might be infected with a virus. Click a link and pay $50 to scan and clear your system but computer will now be infected by new malware and other unpleasantness.
“See Who’s Viewed Your Profile”
This type of “clickjacking” promises to show you who has been checking out your profile requesting for personal information, leading your info to be compromised or malware to be installed on your computer.
This type of “clickjacking” promises to show you who has been checking out your profile requesting for personal information, leading your info to be compromised or malware to be installed on your computer.
Credit Card Pre-Approval
Notice that you’ve been pre-approved for a credit card and you have to pay the annual fee up front.
Notice that you’ve been pre-approved for a credit card and you have to pay the annual fee up front.
Account Cancellation Notice
An email telling you that your credit card or banking account has been cancelled leads you to provide your account information and login info to scammer.
An email telling you that your credit card or banking account has been cancelled leads you to provide your account information and login info to scammer.
“Confirm Your Email Account”
You get a request to confirm your account from a bank or other seemingly reputable company, but as you click through and enter your information, you are merely confirming that you’re gullible to a convincing scam.
You get a request to confirm your account from a bank or other seemingly reputable company, but as you click through and enter your information, you are merely confirming that you’re gullible to a convincing scam.
Job Scams
Email offering a job in a foreign country asking to send money to cover the cost of paperwork or the cost of getting a work permit.
Email offering a job in a foreign country asking to send money to cover the cost of paperwork or the cost of getting a work permit.
Court Notice
An email from a law firm telling you to appear in court including a link to court notice. Click to infect your computer.
An email from a law firm telling you to appear in court including a link to court notice. Click to infect your computer.
Free Stuff
It promises free things or tickets asking you to click a link to claim your freebies and infect your computer with malware.
It promises free things or tickets asking you to click a link to claim your freebies and infect your computer with malware.
The Nigerian Prince
A prince from Nigeria (Ivory Coast, Spain, or Togo …) is wanting your help pay for the taxes, legal fees etc. with the goal to lift it from your bank account.
A prince from Nigeria (Ivory Coast, Spain, or Togo …) is wanting your help pay for the taxes, legal fees etc. with the goal to lift it from your bank account.
The Perfect Girlfriend
An message sent through a dating site or Facebook from an account with a really cute profile pic asking you for money to cover the airfare to come and see you.
An message sent through a dating site or Facebook from an account with a really cute profile pic asking you for money to cover the airfare to come and see you.
“Work From Home” Mailed Check or Upfront Fees
Popup ads promising that you can make $2,000 a week working from your living room ending up costing you money by wiring back mistakenly paid money while the check will bounce. Or charge you an “activation fee” to get started.
Popup ads promising that you can make $2,000 a week working from your living room ending up costing you money by wiring back mistakenly paid money while the check will bounce. Or charge you an “activation fee” to get started.
All-Expenses Paid Vacation
Email or phone call informing you that you’ve won an all-expenses-paid vacation to some exotic destination asking for your credit card information to hold the reservation.
Email or phone call informing you that you’ve won an all-expenses-paid vacation to some exotic destination asking for your credit card information to hold the reservation.
Free Gift Cards
More popular than ever as phishing scam. An offer of a free gift card takes you to enter personal information.
More popular than ever as phishing scam. An offer of a free gift card takes you to enter personal information.
“Payment Requested”
Notice of outstanding charge for a cable bill or some online purchase.
Notice of outstanding charge for a cable bill or some online purchase.
Fake Celebrity News
A shocking headline to click a pop-up ad with unintentional malware download that could cause major problems.
A shocking headline to click a pop-up ad with unintentional malware download that could cause major problems.
The Scandalous Photo
A Facebook message pointing out a photo of you leads you to file-sharing website by clicking and brings some nasty malware onto your computer.
A Facebook message pointing out a photo of you leads you to file-sharing website by clicking and brings some nasty malware onto your computer.
Mugged on Vacation
Email or message from a friends address/account reaches you out of the blue to tell you they’ve been mugged and need your help to pay their expenses to get back home.
Email or message from a friends address/account reaches you out of the blue to tell you they’ve been mugged and need your help to pay their expenses to get back home.
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