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01/08/2023
Amex, Amazon, Netflix, Costco, and Walmart – Top Phishing Scams This Week
Trend Micro
We’ve found a large number of scams that you should watch out for, including ones relating to American Express, Amazon, Netflix, Costco, and Walmart. Would you have been able to spot all the scams?
Phishing Scams
Impersonating famous brands and companies, scammers will send out phishing links (usually via text message or email) and try to entice you into opening them with various lies. As seen below, these phishing links will lead to malicious websites containing fake log-in pages.
American Express Phishing
We’ve reported extensively on phishing emails that pose as banks, and this week we’ve detected multiple fake security alert emails purporting to be from American Express:
Alerts
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