Electric Ireland customers are being targetted in a phishing attack The attack uses the ploy of a refund being granted to them to entice them to login to the fake website. Of course nobody’s really interested in your electricity bill. What they’re really after is your credit card details, so once you’ve been duped into […]
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Irish Water Targetted In Email Phishing Scam
Irish Water has been targetted in an email phishing scam sent to Irish internet users this morning. The email, in common with most phishing scams, uses elements from the Irish Water corporate branding, but is rather badly worded: If you click on the hyperlink in the email you will end up at what appears to […]
Poorly Written Scam Emails are Designed to Weed out the Wise
dearest one, I than good for sedning you to me and i pray this enrteprise will be to our mutual benfiot … We’ve all got them: scam emails, 419 Nigerian frauds (although they come from other countries as well), phishing, advance fee fraud. One of my Facebook friends recently shared an email he had received, remarking that, if it […]