The Trouble comes in the notes - the accounts-rip off
Of course you can be alarmed if you receive a bill, get by E-Mail order confirmation or even a warning. For example, you see in your Inbox an E-Mail to the Mahnstelle of iTunes. In it, you are advised that you have not responded to several reminders. You will now pay the outstanding amount (in two - or three-digit level) within a short period of time. The Details in the Form of the purchase contract with the Bank details are in the Annex of the Fake-Mail in a ZIP file. So you defend the attack successfully:
- Under no circumstances open the attachment.
- Click on a Link, because it is only by visiting a website, you can download malicious software to your PC.
- Delete the E-Mail immediately.
Rip-off-email with zip attachment
Phishing attacks via E-Mail, a la “your account has been locked.”
Crooks not only install viruses, but will try to come also to your Bank, or other access data. For example, eBay will notify you that your account has been locked for security reasons and you can enable this by entering your user name and password again. The Link you receive in the E-Mail. As is the case with Phishing e-Mails usually put under pressure and threatened that you need to act quickly, because your eBay account is otherwise resolved. The auction house know of this e-Mail of the sender of this criminal Spam Mail is spoofed. Give scammers no Chance, by
- no Links in these E-Mails click
- no download images
- no attachment to open
- no enter data into a form
- the E-Mail delete it immediately
- the URL of your Bank, always enter it in your Browser and log in to it.
Mail with Phishing Link
Not infrequently they land in Phishing attacks to fake websites that resemble the real sites such as a twin brother. By the so-called Link-Spoofing is displayed in the E-Mail even the real address of the Domain. Is loaded, however, after a click the fraudulent website.
So you will have to help if you are unsure
Delete the E-Mail and call up in the Browser manually, the website of the concerned company. Under contact, or in the imprint, you will find telephone numbers and E-Mail addresses. Just ask the question this way.
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Regardless of whether you can be blackmailed with the lock of your PC, a Virus, or your Bank's data, limit the damage by:
- the company concerned (such as a Bank, online shop, eBay, PayPal) to inform
- change all passwords, or your access is completely blocked
- the fraud documented by the E-print, Mail, or on-screen photos make
- Criminal charges in the police report to
- in no case will payments, if you are instructed by the scammers to do so.
