His scam was so successful that he tricked the show’s hosts, Gimlet Media’s CEO and its president.Īs Bennin went on to explain, you don’t even need to fall victim for a criminal hacker to gain vital information. He bought the domain ‘’ (that’s r-n-e-d-i-a, rather than m-e-d-i-a) and impersonated Bennin. Phia Bennin, the show’s producer, hired an ethical hacker to phish various employees. The Gimlet Media podcast ‘Reply All’ demonstrated that in the episode What Kind Of Idiot Gets Phished?. Meanwhile, some fraudsters get even more creative.
Here, scammers have registered the domain ‘’, which to a casual reader mimics the words ‘Microsoft Online’, which could reasonably be considered a legitimate address. If the email is from or another public domain, you can be sure that has come from a personal account. This dictates the organisation from which the email has come. However, you should remember that the important part of the address is what comes after the symbol. In this instance, the address might read first glance, you might see the word ‘PayPal’ in the email address and assume that it was legitimate. Other phishing emails will take a more sophisticated approach by including the organisation’s name in the local part of the domain. However, the content of the message looks realistic, and the attacker has customised the sender’s name field so that it will appear in recipients’ inboxes as ‘Account Support’. In this example, you can see that the sender’s email address doesn’t line up with the content of the message, which appears to be from PayPal. The most obvious way to spot a bogus email is if the sender uses a public email domain, such as Pickr For example, legitimate emails from Google will read the domain name (the bit after the symbol) matches the apparent sender of the email, the message is probably legitimate.īy contrast, if the email comes from an address that isn’t affiliated with the apparent sender, it’s almost certainly a scam.
Most organisations, except some small operations, will have their own email domain and company accounts. No legitimate organisation will send emails from an address that ends even Google. The message is sent from a public email domain In this blog, we use real phishing email examples to demonstrate five clues to help you spot scams.ġ. Meanwhile, Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report found that 25% of all data breaches involve phishing. Phishing is one of the most common types of cyber crime, but despite how much we think we know about scam emails, people still frequently fall victim.Īccording to Proofpoint’s 2022 State of the Phish Report, 83% of organisations fell victim to a phishing attack last year.
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