This 'old-fashioned' identity theft is just as dangerous as the cyber kind

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It's a fear many email users have: Opening a link that promises exclusive celebrity pics and ending up in the middle of a phishing scam. Here's how the CEO of Proofpoint trains employees to look for fraudulent emails that try to steal from you.

Assessing what other mail might have gone missing was taxing, and resolving the known losses took weeks, she said.

Businesses don't always understand how much data they're collecting, or how to store it properly, he said. In the Center for Identity report, the perpetrator was an employee in 10 percent of cases, and a medical service provider in 9 percent of cases. "It's amazing to me that we'll be so guarded with very interesting things we have, but we'll hand over our identity information on the spot," McCleskey said."A lot of [analog theft] is self-compromise," said ITRC's Velasquez. "You have information you really should be protecting, and you're making it available."

 

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I don't have that fear.

Why would anyone want exclusive celebrity pics?

Nobody reads anything anyhow accessibility development relationships LenovoBusiness secure practices 'product' connections confidence chronicle scams not denial HumbleCheaters office

I work for a publicly traded company. In addition to training classes a few times a year our bank tests each employee by emailing them through a fake external email a well put together phishing email. If you open the link you and your manager are put on notice, strike 1

And it couldn't happen to the nicest of people my uncle once opened up an email promising candid photos of rob schneiders feet, his computer got locked and a nigerian prince promised him he can fix it... my brother lost everything, thanks joe biden's ukrainian server

Like trudeau our great Canadian fraud

Oooooh....some rando was kind enough to send me exclusive pics of the Kardashians, I should click on this! Dummy Boomers.

'It's a fear many email users have: Opening a link that promises exclusive celebrity pics and ending up in the middle of a phishing scam.' This is like a scene from the hunger games.

“Exclusive celebrity pics” = delete 😂😂 99.5% of emails I get go straight to trash except for the Nigerian lottery ones. My money should be here any day now.

only morons open links for 'exclusive celebrity pics' Seriously , this the best you got?

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