Watch out for this email invoice scam.
MailGuard has detected fake invoice notifications like the one in the screenshot above, being sent from a wide variety of compromised email accounts.
The email subject line on these scam messages displays “Invoice INV-4539” plus a random company name, including:
This message is being sent from a wide variety of compromised email accounts, which may have been hijacked from real company domains. These include:
The objective of this scam is to get victims to click on the “view invoice” button in the message, which links to a malware infected file.
If your company’s email accounts aren’t protected, scam emails like the one above are almost certainly being received by your staff. Cybercriminals know people can be tricked; that’s why they send out millions of scam messages and put so much effort into making them look convincing.
People are not machines; we're all capable of making bad judgement calls. Without email filtering protecting your business, it’s just a matter of time before someone in your organisation has a momentary lapse of judgement and clicks on the wrong thing.
For a few dollars per staff member per month, you can protect your business with MailGuard's predictive email security.
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