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Beware Covid-19 Hacker Scams Article for: All of us Difficulty: Easy Importance: Useful security information Here are 6 new scams and viruses brought to you by innovative hackers taking advantage of the Covid-19 virus.
I just got a nice-looking Email from what appeared to be CapitalOne and would give me a reward for filling out a questionnaire about my shopping experience. A close examination revealed it would download malware and had nothing to do with CapitalOne.
Be careful out there. Remember, the Internet connects us to about 7 billion people. If one person in a thousand is a malicious miscreant, then 7 million malicious miscreants are connected to you! Be careful.
Best advice: Never click on any link from a bank or credit card company or to purchase any item ever. Never click on an email link, unless it is a known friend sending you a link to a news article or something that is within what you'd expect from them and contains enough information so you know it is really from them. Simply a friends email address means nothing. Email addresses are easy to spoof.
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Date: May 2020
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