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- Email Spoofing. Email spoofing is a deceptive technique cybercriminals use to manipulate an email’s display name and address, making it appear that the message is from a trusted source.
- CEO Fraud. CEO fraud, also known as “business email compromise” or BEC, targets professionals who handle financial transactions within an organization.
- Phishing Links and Malicious Attachments. Phishing links and malicious attachments are among the most prevalent methods cybercriminals employ to infiltrate systems and compromise sensitive data.
- Smishing. Smishing, a portmanteau of SMS (Short Message Service) and phishing, targets individuals through text messages. Cybercriminals leverage the immediacy and trust associated with text messaging to trick recipients into divulging personal information or downloading malicious content.
Aug 24, 2023 · The "lawyer" claims to have an unclaimed life insurance policy worth millions of dollars for a deceased client. Due to your (supposedly) similar last name and nationality, the "lawyer" can add ...
- Gary Guthrie
Aug 18, 2023 · You can’t cash in on a stranger’s life insurance policy — even if a lawyer says you can. The FTC has heard reports from people in Korean, Vietnamese, and Latino communities who got letters in the mail from a supposed “lawyer” in Canada. The letter looks like it’s from a law firm and offers an “easy way” to get money using someone else’s life insurance policy. But it’s a ...
- What Is A Phishing email?
- Email Scams to Send Money: Real Stories of Legal Firms Fooled
- How to Spot Phishing and Other Email Scams
Youmay know how to spot those obvious scam emails, but how can you identify (andmake sure your staff can identify) more sophisticated attempts to steal dataand dollars? Emails and texts that attempt to trick you into divulginginformation are known as phishing attempts. These take many, many formsand range from theridiculous—poorly designed emails u...
Othertypes of scams are of the Nigerian prince variety in which someone convincesyou to send them money. You may think such blatant cons could never fool you oryour smart, capable staff, but, again, these scams can be surprisinglysophisticated and sometimes even target lawyers. Takea scam that specifically targeted law firms in 2020. A potential cl...
Youcan (and should) protect your firm with cybersecurity software, but no softwarecan protect you from social engineering. Avoid even the most clever ploysby educating your firm’s lawyers andsupport staff to protect their privacy, your client’s privacy and your firm’sfinances with just a few best practices. 1. Keep your software up to date: You kno...
Whaling: Whaling is a popular ploy aimed at getting you to transfer money or send sensitive information to an attacker via email by impersonating a real Supreme Court of Canada executive. Using a fake domain that appears similar to ours, they look like normal emails from a high-level official of the Court (typically the Chief Justice of Canada or the Registrar), and ask you for sensitive ...
It appears the scammer is now using a similar domain used by the law firm; for instance, if a law firm uses the email address [email protected], the scammer will use a similar email address, such as [email protected]. The Law Society advises members to be extra cautious regarding emails that request a transfer of funds. September 15, 2017
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A. Typical wire fraud scam scenario faced by lawyers. The scam typically involves a compromised email account from one or more parties to a real estate or commercial transaction ii. The FBI refers to this scam as the "man-in-the-email-scam. iii " The scammer assumes the identity of a party to the transaction and uses an email address that ...
