The Daily Dose

My mom won’t thank me for writing that she once fell prey to someone ‘calling from Microsoft’ to help her out with a computer problem she didn’t know she had. Another phone scam has now popped up that hopes to exploit people’s fears about their email being hacked, purporting to be from the very real, but entirely unrelated, Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN). According to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alert, the caller will tell you your email has been hacked and that it’s sending fraudulent messages. They’ll try to convince you to hand over your details by saying they can…

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