Atlanta Buckhead Midtown - Friday Fraud Forecasts -
BEWARE OF CLICKING
If you were walking on the street above when a person stood menacingly towering over you, the situation could feel a bit dangerous for you.
Because of malicious links, when you are comfortably sitting with a personal device, in your own home or office, reading email, texts or looking at various ads, you are at the same level of terrifying danger.
Beware of clicking whenever you are asked to click on an image or a document or to review a shipping order or to see an invoice or --- well, any item from an unknown source. Every one of those items could contain virus infections.
In addition, the criminals use KNOWN names to attempt to infect the unsuspecting person's computer or tablet or cell phone.
BTW - the illustrations here seem to have links but they do not.
First, I deleted part of each link and second, I took a screenshot
of the sanitized data. NO CLICKING POSSIBLE.
One ploy is offers of monetary gain.
You don't want to click on one of these.
Another ploy is stating that something is amiss with one of your accounts or a delivery - JUST CLICK for more information they say.
But check the quality of their written English.
Your Amazon account has been
used for Signin in to another device
and We've suspended your payments.
Our System has been locked your Amazon account
yours Amazon account will be terminated
Yet another way to try to infect other people's hardware is done through pictures. "Malware placed inside images of various formats is a result of steganography which is the technique of hiding data within a file to avoid detection.”
From 'welivesecurity'.com
The bad-hats are out there waiting for you to let down your guard and allow them to begin their thievery. What can you do to prevent it? DON'T CLICK. And again:
DO NOT CLICK UNLESS YOU KNOW WHO IT IS!!!!
More examples another time. NightCafe used to experiment for top AI image.
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