Friday, Sep 08, 2017 at 10:46
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55, Usually nothing has been hacked.
It's just a numbers game, I get these emails ALL the time, from just abut every bank, utility, govco office etc, and then some I've never heard of.
They just hope to hit on firstly those that have business with that particular company / agency, the secondly, that people aren't savvy enough to recognise a scam, phishing to be precise, the electronic form of fishing for cc info, passwords, and worse trojans.
No legit biz needs to access this info in that way, most don't even have access to your info, it's buried (hopefully deep) in their encrypted systems.
If you go through a link in a scam email to a website, and click on their links, you can inadvertently upload a trojan that allows the scammer to access keystrokes, such as banking, access number, password, etc.
They can then fleece the account.
Also opening attachments unknown on an email can do the same thing.
They are usually easily spotted.
The email address sent from has a weird domain and / or extension, eg. one I got this morning from ANZ (who I don't bank with), was . . . block at movingtoaustralia dot anz dot com . . . address 'munged' to no enable it.
They register that dodgy domain with anz in it to look legitimate.
In the email, if you hover over links, even links spelled correctly, they will be totally different web address, one designed to look like ANZ page almost perfectly, but of course they have set this up.
For example, the ANZ email had a line . . .
You will need to Log on and unlock your service.
Log on was a linked text, but hovering over it was a very long sham website address to a UK builders website address, likely hijacked for the purpose.
They are very smart, but also very dumb these scammers, but get enough hits from susceptible people to steal or scam millions.
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