…For even more viral and scamming activity than usual.
For me personally, heavy scamming first came to my Inbox around Thanksgiving, 2014. It started when I received a fax from “me”. I did not send myself a fax. I hadn’t sent anyone else a fax around that time. But there it was. And then there were a dozen more, all within a space of minutes.
Each email wanted to me to collect my fax message by clicking on a link. Needless to say, those links were to overseas Websites where who-knows-what was waiting for the unlucky clicker. I didn’t click it; you shouldn’t either when receiving something you aren’t expecting and/or something that doesn’t look quite right.
In the years since, even with excellent and layered protection, I’ve received important shipping confirmations from UPS, when I hadn’t ordered anything being delivered that way. Order confirmations from places I don’t do business with. Credit card statement notices from banks I’ve never heard of. All with links that take you not to the presumed sender, but somewhere else….someplace you don’t want to go.
With all the shopping and shipping going on this time of year, it’s easy to let the guard down and click through something that might be real. Take an extra second and be vigilant about what you click on before you do…and then maybe wish you hadn’t.
