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Good advice is to never click links in emails, but go manually to a given page (via Google perhaps) and log in yourself.
It's a bit easier if your family lives outside of English-speaking country when it comes to phishing. Phishing spam is either English, or a poor google translate 95% of the time.
What really irks me is getting an email like this: Shipping account suspended Dear XXXX, FedEx shipping privileges for account number ending in NNNN have been suspended. To access and update your credit card data, log in to FedEx® Billing Online. Log in today (Button) This just screams "scam", especially since I haven't used the FedEx account in months. When I log into FedEx (not using the link in the email), my acco…
The internet just isn't safe for some users right now. Encourage them to call you if they're doubtful, never click Ads and to never interact with people that initiate contact with them first.
SEO affects search engines like Google, putting shady businesses high in the search result (sometimes even #1).
I've seen this first hand with my mother who needed a locksmith because the lock on her front door broke. The cost of 'repairing' was well over 500 EUR, and the lock wasn't repaired at all, it had to be completely replaced afterwards by a real locksmith which was legit but due to the damage the scammer caused was expensive a well. This is a known scam trick going on in The Netherlands, but probably just one of the many examples.
What really irks me is getting an email like this: Shipping account suspended Dear XXXX, FedEx shipping privileges for account number ending in NNNN have been suspended. To access and update your credit card data, log in to FedEx® Billing Online. Log in today (Button) This just screams "scam", especially since I haven't used the FedEx account in months. When I log into FedEx (not using the link in the email), my acco…
Either the people you are able to contact don't care, because they have no idea what you're talking about, or they don't care because they wrote/required exactly what you're complaining about, out of expediency or ignorance.
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It is very easy to spoof an email address[1], so it could be that it is someone from outside of FedEx. https://superuser.com/questions/505503/how-can-you-fake-an-e...
However you can still check the IP address of the mail server that sent the mail. Some things to look at: 1. Check PTR for IP and verify that the A or AAAA record for that name points back to the same IP. 2. Compare with IP address of server that sent previous mail to you. 3. Check SPF records for the domain. 4. Check MX records for the domain. Keep in mind that they might be using different servers for sending than…
Gift your loved ones an iPad or Android tablet, maybe also enable some parent control to limit their exposure. 90% of end users don't need a notebook, a tablet is the safer alternative.
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However you can still check the IP address of the mail server that sent the mail. Some things to look at: 1. Check PTR for IP and verify that the A or AAAA record for that name points back to the same IP. 2. Compare with IP address of server that sent previous mail to you. 3. Check SPF records for the domain. 4. Check MX records for the domain. Keep in mind that they might be using different servers for sending than…
These sound like good steps to determine if a sender is legitimate. Is there a plugin that already does this for existing email clients?
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It is very easy to spoof an email address[1], so it could be that it is someone from outside of FedEx. https://superuser.com/questions/505503/how-can-you-fake-an-e...
With SPF, DKIM, DMARC, coupled with blacklists and the reputation system of big mail providers that's making it difficult to host your own email, it's actually quite to impersonate an email address. Try it, then see how many times you can hit a @gmail address.
Works like a charm.
What really irks me is getting an email like this: Shipping account suspended Dear XXXX, FedEx shipping privileges for account number ending in NNNN have been suspended. To access and update your credit card data, log in to FedEx® Billing Online. Log in today (Button) This just screams "scam", especially since I haven't used the FedEx account in months. When I log into FedEx (not using the link in the email), my acco…