Rice County Fraud Alert: Phishing scams are becoming more destructive

From the Rice County Attorney’s Office

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If it seems like you are receiving more threatening emails these days, you probably are. Such emails characterize a typical phishing scam and these scams are escalating. According to Symantec, the Norton AntiVirus firm, phishing scams have grown to an estimated 8 million attempts a day.

A phishing scam is a legitimate-looking email from a fake business or government agency that typically threatens to take some kind of undesirable action if the reader doesn’t respond. Cyber thieves trick email users into disclosing personal and financial information by instructing them to click on an attachment or email link. But just as email users have become more adept at recognizing and then deleting these emails, phishing scams are becoming more malevolent and not as easy to spot.

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