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Phished

You Got Phished and Took the Bait: Now What?

There are a number of email scams out there, ranging from emotional appeals from Nigerian royalty to notifications that you just won the lottery in London – even though you’ve never purchased or made an entry. Fortunately, greater education, awareness and suspicion of these types of email scam messages have helped protect a number of SPAM recipients. While many of these Internet email scams are just digitally updated con games that have been around since before the first World War, the con artists are getting smarter and attempting to work around your suspicions by taking the wolf in sheep’s clothing approach. It’s called “phishing” and according to a fraud report created by the RSA, 2013 saw nearly 450,000 phishing attacks. Altogether, the damage in dollars amounted to nearly $6 billion. Continue reading