Yelp ads scam sent to collections8/18/2023 ![]() Since anyone checking the “From” field of the email will see that it’s officially from Google, they may end up filling it out and clicking the link, not knowing that the contents of that form are not from Google. Malicious parties will add their crap into the body of the form and then add your email address to it In both, the spammer is pretending that the user has previously filled out something official with Google when in fact they have not and is now simply receiving an email asking them to fill out their email address and to click a link to verify. So what’s the harm? A spammer sent you a form using Google’s automation process, so what? Well, the trickery occurs in the body of the form! Take a look at two of the examples below that we received this week. That email address looks official because, well, it is. These receipt emails are officially sent from Google’s servers using the address where it gets hairy. This will only occur if the form creator toggles on “Response Receipts” in the form’s settings. When someone creates an email form and others fill it out and submit their responses, they will receive a copy of that form in their inbox as a means of keeping track of things. The spammer in question will take advantage of an officially automated email feature called a response receipt. Last year, we saw this happen with Google Calendar and Google Drive, but check out this Google Forms phishing attempt. On a basic level, phishing emails use social engineering to encourage users to act without thinking things through. Social engineering techniques include forgery, misdirection and lying-all of which can play a part in phishing attacks. Phishing is an example of social engineering: a collection of techniques that scam artists use to manipulate human psychology. The intent is often to get users to reveal financial information, system credentials or other sensitive data. Phishing is when attackers send malicious emails designed to trick people into falling for a scam. While this is nothing new, and people have been creating phishing scams for years now, one favorite method hackers have taken to like water is to abuse Google’s official services in an attempt to appear legitimate. ![]() ![]() Over the past few days, we’ve noticed an uptick in the number of fake emails in our inbox, but specifically from individuals attempting to impersonate Google. ![]()
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