{"id":7928,"date":"2019-04-23T14:31:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/005abf0ad9.nxcli.io\/?p=7928"},"modified":"2022-11-30T16:30:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T21:30:04","slug":"email-hacking-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coursevector.com\/email-hacking-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Email Hacking Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is an email scam circulating right now. Scammers send you an email claiming that your email has been hacked. We\u2019ve gotten a lot of questions about it lately. Long story short, it\u2019s a scare tactic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s how scammers trick you<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scammers hack and compromise someone else\u2019s email account. It could be anyone in any location (in Europe, South Africa, anywhere). With that compromised system, they send you a specially crafted email where it has the From and the To fields of the email set to your address. This is trivial from a programming standpoint, but greatly confuses unsuspecting email users. The effect is it looks like it\u2019s an email coming from yourself. In reality, it\u2019s just a trick, and they are trying to scare you into paying them money. We have recieved a couple of these a week, and it\u2019s been going on for a few months now. As long as they can scare a few people into paying, they will keep sending these out unfortunately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can I tell if it\u2019s a scam?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scammers are trying to create emails that look more legitimate, and it can be difficult to tell a scam from a real email. Scam emails usually have poor grammar. Links in scam emails will usually take you to a website from which either the scammer can access your computer (infected link) or a place where you will pay the scammer inadvertently (phony payment portal). To check links, hover over them but DO NOT CLICK ON THEM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When in doubt, delete the email. Do not reply. Do not click any links. If the email appears to be from a legitimate business, open a new window or tab, type in the business URL, and contact them via their website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The image below is an example of just one of these emails. They all seem to have slightly different wording, but their content is remarkably similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What if you get an email like this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Do not reply. Do not pay them money. Simply delete the email. This is not the only email scam that has been circulating. We have an entire article on current\u00a0internet scams<\/a>, many of them involving email. We update this article often. So, check back for new ways criminals are trying to scam everyday web users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a bit of good news, in that if your email is hosted with CourseVecter and you take advantage of our spam filter service<\/a>, we can block these emails before they even hit your inbox. We do need to see them, though. So, you can forward them to support@coursevector.com<\/a> with a message letting us know you got a spam email that you\u2019d like us to block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is an email scam circulating right now. Scammers send you an email claiming that your email has been hacked. We\u2019ve gotten a lot of questions about it lately. Long story short, it\u2019s a scare tactic. Here\u2019s how scammers trick you Scammers hack and compromise someone else\u2019s email account. It could be anyone in any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2027-04-28 06:39:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coursevector.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coursevector.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coursevector.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coursevector.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coursevector.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coursevector.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25684,"href":"https:\/\/coursevector.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928\/revisions\/25684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coursevector.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coursevector.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coursevector.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coursevector.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}