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The malicious practice of pretending to be a trusted party in order to try to extract sensitive information from a victim

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question Do you know websites where malicious emails (spam/phishing/malware/fraud/ransom) can be efficiently reported by uploading ? requirements I would like to help combat spam. Therefore, I am ...
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So I was looking through some of my emails and I saw that I was being sent some emails from mega.nz about an account that was made with my email address that was locked and needed to be verified. ...
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I received a "password reset" email from Instagram that I did not request. The body of the email does actually state: If you didn't request a password reset, let us know And the "let us know" text ...
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G Suite admins have the ability to make G Suite go harder on phishing attacks in an organization by ticking some checkboxes here and there, but there doesn't seem to be an ability to check incoming ...
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I've just gotten an email directing me to dropboxdownloads.com, since I have "received a secure document". As the email has no clear identifying personal details of mine, nor any information about the ...
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Someone has created a fake Hangouts account using my son's first name and my last name. Neither my son nor I have a Hangouts account. My sister had gotten a message sent to her with a screenshot ...
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A Yahoo account was hacked. Let's assume it was called [email protected] and that the victim also has another email [email protected]. The guy who hacked the Yahoo email ID stole the contact list, ...
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A very persistent person(s) is continually spoofing a company employee's e-mail address with criminal intent. They attempt to e-mail other people in the company trying to trick them into believing the ...
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Every week I get an email message from somebody asking me to confirm my Twitter account. I don't even have a Twitter account! The sender's email address is [email protected], which I find ...
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I got two emails this week from Gmail, claiming to have prevented "suspicious sign-in attempts" to my account. These emails came from the address: [email protected] (using the name "...
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I get always mails with a subject "CLAIMS" or "REPLY URGENTLY" or "CHECK YOUR MAIL". I want to report this to Gmail, so that in the future I will not get such mails. Currently, I am opening those ...
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On a regular basis, after logging in to LinkedIn and doing something like accepting an invitation to be "added to someone's professional network", LinkedIn will ask for my email account password. It ...
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I think a friend's Twitter account has been compromised. She has sent me a direct message with a link which is an obvious phishing attempt to get my password. I didn't fall for it, and I sent a ...
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I have a Yahoo email account that just got hacked as someone used it to send spam to many of my contacts. I just changed my password. I've been trying to send emails to a few contacts that we're ...
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Yesterday I sent an email explaining some seo techniques to a client and today I got 2 emails from other gmail addresses that are clearly phishing scams that want me to purchase seo scripts. I do ...
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