Hello Graham,
Thank you for contacting AVG Community Support.
We understand that you have recently received Phishing email.
We are really sorry to know this. We'll certainly check and help you out.
Phishing,is basically any attempt to trick people over an email, text messages, phone calls or a fake website. The goal can be anything from trying to get people to send you money, hand over sensitive information, or even just download malware unwittingly, and the authors of these attacks will use lies, trickery, forgery, and outright manipulation in order to see them succeed. Because of this, phishing is what we call Social Engineering: a kind of attack that relies on human fallibility rather than a hardware or software flaw in order to work.
We request you to check this article on how to prevent Phishing: https://www.avg.com/en/signal/what-is-phishing
Thank you and keep us updated.
Hello Graham,
Thank you for contacting AVG Community Support.
We understand that you have recently received Phishing email.
We are really sorry to know this. We'll certainly check and help you out.
Phishing,is basically any attempt to trick people over an email, text messages, phone calls or a fake website. The goal can be anything from trying to get people to send you money, hand over sensitive information, or even just download malware unwittingly, and the authors of these attacks will use lies, trickery, forgery, and outright manipulation in order to see them succeed. Because of this, phishing is what we call Social Engineering: a kind of attack that relies on human fallibility rather than a hardware or software flaw in order to work.
We request you to check this article on how to prevent Phishing: https://www.avg.com/en/signal/what-is-phishing
Thank you and keep us updated.
Good afternoon
I recently sent an email regarding an invoice to a receipient I contact regularly. Later they received another email with the same subhect heading yet with Re: in front and apparently from my email address. It was also signed in a similar fashion to how I sign my emails. The subject of this suspicious email was an attempt to divert payment of the invoice to a separate account.
It wasn't particularly cleverly done and suspicions were immediately raised. The concern is, my original emal was obviously intercepted somehow then their email address disguised as mine. I'm running AVG Internet Security 23.11.3310 with the Web & Email Protection so I'd really appreciate if someone could advise as to how this has happened and how to prevent it happening again.
I'm using latest Outlook in case that matters.
Many thanks
Graham