Watch Out for Phishing Scams

You should be particularly cautious while entering your inbox since email scams are getting more complex and difficult to detect. It's very likely that an unusual email from an unknown address, or an oddly written email that seems to be from one of your connections, is a scam email.

Cybercriminals use email-based attacks, commonly known as phishing scams, to acquire sensitive information such as login passwords and credit card numbers by imitating a trustworthy actor. Emails imitating a brand (e.g. Amazon.Support@gmail.com), emails imitating an individual, emails from a look-alike domain (e.g. noreply@Amazonn.com), and emails sent from a trustworthy source that a cybercriminal has hacked into are all examples of phishing attacks. Be on the lookout for all of the above types of phishing scams during the Black Friday shopping season. Any links in the email should not be clicked since they may infect your computer with a virus. Instead, delete the email right away, and if it seems to be from a friend, contact them to alert them that their email account has been hacked.