Email Scams

How to tell if an email is malicious spam

Today the following email came through my theoretically spam-protected inbox. Initially I assumed it was SPAM, but I took another look.

Spam filtering, but different!

The idea of a spam filter is to stop bad emails or content reaching your email users, so they can’t accidently open something bad, or go to a fake website pretending to be a bank for example, where they will then enter their genuine details which can then be captured by the malicious actor.

Fake Emails - Please continue to be vigilant

A week or 3 ago I sent a warning to our clients to be aware of fake emails that contain malicious links.

Yesterday we saw a new outbreak of basically the same thing...