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PHISHING SCAM – ‘Refer to Documents via Dropbox App’
This email requests that you click a link to refer to ‘urgent and highly confidential’ documents using the Dropbox app. It instructs you to click a ‘Dropbox’ link to download the documents and asks that you ‘kindly do the needful’.
Hoax-Slayer · English · May 11, 2015
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‘Re-Validate Your Mailbox’ Email Phishing Scam
The email is not from any domain or webmail admin and the claim that you must validate your account is untrue. The email is a phishing scam designed to steal your email account login credentials.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Jun 13, 2016
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AT&T Phishing Scam
The email is not from AT&T. In fact, the email is a phishing scam designed to trick AT&T users into sending their account login details to cybercriminals.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Oct 11, 2011
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‘Upgrade Your Credit Card’ Facebook Phishing Scam
The message is a scam designed to steal credit card details from unsuspecting users. In fact, this scam attempt is so obvious and crudely rendered that it is actually rather entertaining.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Nov 7, 2014
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‘Proposal Letter on Google Drive’ Phishing Scam
According to this email, the sender tried to attach a proposal letter but received an error message stating that the attachment exceeded the 25MP attachment size limit. So, claims the email, the sender put the document on Google Drive instead.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Nov 17, 2015
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ANZ ‘Account Has Been Limited’ Phishing Scam
The email is not from ANZ. The attachment contains an HTML file that will open a fraudulent ANZ login page in your browser. Criminals can collect the information you submit on the fake page and use it to hijack your ANZ account.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Mar 23, 2016
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‘Your Latest Virgin Media Bill Has Failed’ Phishing Scam
This email, which purports to be from Virgin Media, claims that your latest bill has failed because the payment processor has detected invalid billing information associated with your account.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Feb 29, 2016
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‘Account Suspended’ Email Phishing Scams Still Common
Online criminals commonly distribute phishing emails that falsely claim that your email account has been suspended, deactivated, or disabled. The scam emails claim that you can stop the supposed suspension and get your account back by clicking a link.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Nov 7, 2018
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American Express ‘Security Concern’ Phishing Scam Email
According to this email, which purports to be a notification from American Express, the company needs to speak to you regarding an account security concern.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Apr 30, 2015
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IRS Refund Scam Email
Emails are phishing scams designed to steal private financial information For several years a series of phishing scam emails that claim to be from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have been targeting US taxpayers.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Feb 9, 2017
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‘Your Apple ID Has Been Locked’ Phishing Scam Email
According to this email, which claims to be from Apple Support, your Apple ID has been locked for security reasons. The email claims that your account is outdated and you are thus required to provide updated account ownership information.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Sep 11, 2018
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Phishing Scams Continue To Target Facebook Page Owners
According to this seemingly official message, Facebook has reviewed your page activity and determined that you were in violation of Facebook’s Terms of Use.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Jul 8, 2017
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PayPal ‘Your Transaction was Declined’ Phishing Scam
The email is not from PayPal. It is a quite sophisticated phishing scam attempt designed to steal PayPal login details and other financial information from recipients.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Feb 20, 2014
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American Express ‘Blocked Card Access’ Phishing Scam
The email is not from American Express. It is a phishing scam designed to steal your credit card numbers, your email account password, and a host of other identifying personal information.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Jul 4, 2016
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Alert From Facebook Security Team Phishing Scam
The message is a phishing scam designed to steal Facebook and webmail account login details and other personal information from recipients. Note that there are several versions of these scam messages currently being distributed.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Jun 30, 2011
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Microsoft Outlook ‘Account Exceeded Storage Limit’ Phishing Scam
According to this email, which claims to be from the Microsoft Outlook account team, your email account has exceeded its storage limit.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Feb 15, 2016
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Virgin Media ‘Urgent Billing Update’ Phishing Scam
According to this email, which purports to be from Virgin Media, you have been set up to receive bills from the company online. Supposedly, the company is upgrading to a new and improved payment system and you must therefore urgently upgrade your billing…
Hoax-Slayer · English · Mar 31, 2015
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StubHub Phishing Scam Email
The email is not from StubHub. The message is a phishing scam designed to trick recipients into divulging their credit card details to cybercriminals. As phishing scams go, this one is somewhat more sophisticated than most.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Oct 28, 2011
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Scammers Using Names of Lottery Winners William and Heather ten Broeke
According to an email that is currently hitting inboxes, Georgia Powerball jackpot lottery winners William and Heather ten Broeke are donating $280,000 and a Microsoft Surface Pro laptop to five individuals around the world.
Hoax-Slayer · English · May 4, 2017
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AOL Update Billing Information Phishing Scam
The email is not from AOL. In fact, the message is a phishing scam designed to trick recipients into providing private financial and personal information to Internet criminals.
Hoax-Slayer · English · Jun 30, 2010
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