A fraudulent email is sent to the student loan borrower informing them that their account has been temporarily suspended due to missing information.
Not exact matches
Email accounts
are often shut down after the provider notices they have
been used for
fraudulent purposes, so ensuring a fresh supply of compromised accounts gives fraudsters the opportunity to
send even more phishing
emails before the accounts get closed.»
There
are so many
fraudulent emails containing malicious links
sent from people who just want to portray themselves as workers from legitimate companies.
They
are used for
fraudulent and illegitimate reasons such as
sending people computer - generated fake
emails that look as if they
're being sent from real people.
Fraudulent emails are also common during the months leading up to filing — the CRA has warned Canadians of a scam that requests personal information
be sent in to them online.
They can also
send links to these websites in
fraudulent emails which look like they
're from your bank or another business you may deal with asking you to give up personal information.
It appears to have become more common for a solicitors firm's name to
be used in
fraudulent or scam
emails sent to private or corporate
email accounts.
The service helps people to detect
fraudulent activity on their property by
sending them
email alerts when there
is certain activity on the property
being monitored, such as a mortgage
being taken out against it.
«Many law firms either don't understand the risk or assume that their existing
email systems will do the job of protecting them, even though our study very quickly demonstrated that it
's all too easy for a criminal to exploit these firms»
email domains in order to impersonate the company and
send out
fraudulent messages to external clients and stakeholders.»
Fraudulent emails have
been sent out giving the address 15 Old Square Lincoln's Inn.
Phishing — commonly executed by
sending fraudulent links and attachments via
email in an attempt to get the reader's personal information —
is one of the most prevalent cybersecurity issues, and you and your team need to know how to avoid these types of attacks.
Phishing
is a social engineering attack in which a
fraudulent email message
is sent and appears to
be coming for a legitimate organization or user.
FireEye informed the public that to their knowledge hackers used spear phishing, «a
fraudulent method of
sending emails to make them look like they
were sent by someone you know, and dispersed malware to obtain virtual cash illicitly.»
Instances
are becoming more common in which criminals hack into real estate professionals»
emails and
send messages to their clients asking for down payment funds to
be wired to a
fraudulent account.
In an effort to instill confidence in this transaction, the scammer fraudulently claims to have listed the apartment with a local Coldwell Banker office and arranges for a
fraudulent email notification posing as a Coldwell Banker representative (and using Coldwell Banker logos) to
be sent to the victim.
Recently, there have
been increased reports across the nation of a theft scheme that involves hackers stealing
email addresses and
sending fraudulent wiring instructions to homebuyers and tenants.
You may recall a previous post about Sue Dietz, an Iowa real estate agent whose identity
was being used by scammers to
send fraudulent emails to other real estate professionals all over the country.
The
fraudulent emails have
been sent to real estate offices across the United States, from New York to Phoenix, but Clearwater, Fla., seems to
be specifically targeted.