Another Taxation phishing email scam It’s heading towards the end of financial year in Australia. This is the starting gun for an unending stream of phishing emails promising a tax rate reduction, a tax refund or a payment. The wonders of technology. The rest of the email is ho-hum. In fact, there is no rest of…
Not Spam claims phishing email It’s time to check the email filters and guess what we found? Yet another phishing email targeting PayPal users. This phishing email asserts that it is not a spam email. It tells the recipient what to do if the email is in the spam or junk folder. The instructions are…
Walmart rewards phishing email We have to admit, receiving Walmart phishing emails is new to MailShark. It is true that our services are global (we have clients in 37 countries, at last count) but we have not received a Walmart phishing email. Today’s inspection of the email filters has changed that. True to form, this…
PayPal Unusual Activity warns phishing email There is one certainty when checking our email filters in the morning. There will be at least one PayPal phishing email. Today’s phishing email steers a course of style over substance. It looks good. It looks convincing. It may trap people if they don’t read the email. But like…
New Statement plus Important Message Sometimes it seems that there is nothing new under the sun. This statement may or may be valid, but for phishing emails, it is not true. Today’s phishing email does, however, resemble a past phishing email. The email targets the users of the Commonwealth Bank’s online banking service. It is…
St George internet banking disabled Another phishing email campaign has surfaced. This campaign targets St George Bank customers. The email warns the user that their account has been disabled. A security audit of the user’s account has found an issue. This has caused the account to be disabled. The email presents a link which the…
Taxation Refund Request Confirmation Another Taxation refund phishing email campaign started this week. The taxation office in this case means the Australian Taxation Office. The email states that you have a tax refund waiting. Now who is not tempted by a tax refund? There is a single html attachment in the email. Open the attachment…
Amazon order almost complete says fake email Amazon phishing emails have been rare over the last 6 months. So of course we have received several in the last week. Buses come in threes; the same must apply to Amazon phishing campaigns. This campaign aims at stealing credit card details. The email is realistic. The links…
Week in Review 22 May 2015 A varied bunch of emails hit the email filters this week. Amazon, Commonwealth Bank and eFax users were all targeted with phishing emails, and we had the obligatory PayPal phishing email. Read on for our week in review. As always, you can click on a link to see the…
Fake eFax message installs ransom ware This type of phishing email has been appearing in our scams folder for some time. It has never appeared in great volumes, until this week. This week it became a clear standout performer in the phishing email campaigns. These volumes earn it the title of “phish of the day”.…
