Now getting more scams from US, France & Germany.
One warning that most here already know but....
There are a few variations but it uses a Cyrillac text instead of English BUT unless you've installed the special Microsoft/Apple update for that language base - it appears as English lettering. So Microsoft.com is really MicroZoXt.com (say).
The trick of holding your cursor over the link shows you a seemingly legitimate https//Microsoft.com
Most of the European & US scam emails these days use this approach. Unfortunately I deleted today's crop before open this blog today. I'll try & post a screenshot to give an idea of what they really look like.
You're gonna need some help recognizing this phishing scam
mashable.com › phishing-homograph-attack-identical-letters
Apr 20, 2017 - How do you spot a phishing
scam when the URL looks perfectly legit? ... URL with similar or identical letters from non-English alphabets such as
Cyrillic. ... letter of the real URL is replaced with a letter from a different
alphabet.
Fake URLs with Cyrillic letters | Computeractive Magazine
getcomputeractive.co.uk › protect-your-tech › fake-urls-with-cyrillic-l...
Fake URLs with
Cyrillic letters.
Scammers have created a fake URL for the messaging service WhatsApp using letters from the
Cyrillic alphabet that look similar to letters in the Latin
alphabet (used in English). You can see in the screenshot that the 'w' and 't' of
www.whatsapp.com have been replaced.
Good to see we've got semi-home grown scammers...
Perth millionaire Zhenya Tsvetnenko arrested over US text ...
www.perthnow.com.au › news › perth-millionaire-zhenya-tsvetnenko...
Jan 26, 2019 - Now the
Russian-born Perth internet millionaire, whose real name is ... alleged involvement in a multimillion-dollar
text-messaging
scam, which ..
Now did you trustingly click on the links?
I hope not. You never know when someone's machine may have got hacked.
I even made a deliberate grammatical error just to raise a little suspicion, did you notice it or did you subconsciously read it by substituting 'opening'? - "Unfortunately I deleted today's crop before
open this blog today."
With some of the more sophisticated scams/techniques these days that may be the only warning you get.
Much safer to just do a search (say on the name) to try & get a safe link.
As far as I know the
link (above) from a search is safe, but......
Wonderful world that technology is helping(?) us to live in.
<< Second error was typo, not deliberate, that I thought I'd leave in >>