Shoutout to the IT guy at my kid's school who said most phishing emails now come from hijacked real accounts, not fake addresses

I found out from him that checking just the sender name isn't enough anymore, because my neighbor's email got taken over and started sending malware links to everyone in their contacts last Tuesday.

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rose_perry1224d ago

Scary how common this is now. My aunt's Facebook got hacked and sent those fake cash app links. You really have to look at the actual email address, not just the display name. Even then it's getting tricky.

abby_murphy24d ago

Used to just glance at the display name and call it good. Then my cousin got a text from "Amazon" about a weird order, but the number was a regular cell phone. They almost gave up their login... now I check everything twice. Even texts from my own area code make me pause.

hayes.wade24d ago

Ugh, my buddy's dad got one of those fake "your account is locked" emails last week, @rose_perry12. It looked so real he almost clicked it before noticing the sender was "support@secure-paypal-help.com" or some nonsense. These scammers are getting way too good at copying the real thing.