COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS BEEN GOLD MINE FOR EMAIL FRAUDSTERS
May 2nd, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has given email fraudsters an opening to increase the effectiveness of their duplicitous communications and sharpen the harm that they cause to companies and individuals receiving these malicious messages.
“All forms of cyber fraud are way up,” said Mason Wilder, senior research specialist at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). Email fraudsters are impersonating charities, government health agencies and even international agencies such as the World Health Organisation - sending messages claiming to include important ...
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