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“An estimated 3.4 billion emails a day are sent by cyber criminals,<\/strong> designed to look like they come from trusted senders.” <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 StationX 2024 Phishing Report<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Phishing emails are one of the most common ways to initiate a cyber attack. Not only that, but a 2023 report<\/a> from Comcast found that as many as 2-in-3 malware attacks start with a phishing attempt.<\/strong> While a lot of these get captured by our spam filters, many don’t. We need to stay on alert as it often only takes one wrong click to download dangerous malware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most of us have been warned not to respond to any \u201cforeign prince\u201d promising us his inheritance over email. Many other common scams are just as clich\u00e9 and easy to spot. Yet, like we said in the beginning, we\u2019ve been seeing an increase in successful phishing attempts. We believe this is due to advances in spammers\u2019 ability to put together more believable scams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Taken from the Federal Trade Commission’s research on phishing scams,<\/a> here are the most common scenarios posed by scammers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, in the case of a scam, none of these scenarios are true, but many of these could seem legitimate at first glance. In order to determine if the email is legitimate or not, here are some examples to keep in mind:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tip: Before you click a link, hover your cursor over it. Doing that will reveal the destination URL, as you see in the picture. If the destination seems strange or inappropriate, don\u2019t click it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tip: pay attention to the sender’s email. Check for spelling errors and swapped letters, and if the email is from the correct domain (e.g., Amazon would not send an email from an @gmail.com account, etc).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tip: Watch out for phony attachments like the one pictured above. Disguised as an invoice, the file likely contains malware.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photos courtesy of The University of Memphis<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ultimately, listen to your intuition. If something feels off, investigate further before clicking any links or calling any numbers in the email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are the steps we suggest you take to protect your business from scammers<\/p>\n\n\n\n We hope this has been a helpful article for you, and we encourage you to share it with your team as a quick refresher. Next week we will be talking about a more personalized and harder to spot type of internet scam called \u201cSpear Phishing\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to our new series! Here at Island, we\u2019ve noticed an uptick in support calls related to internet scams. While the problem of cybercrime is complex, prevention can be fairly straightforward. Taking a few minutes to freshen up on what to look out for is a great way to protect your business. That\u2019s why we\u2019ve … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7988"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7996,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988\/revisions\/7996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What to look out for?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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