Domain fraud is a growing risk for businesses and consumers as cybercriminals register millions of domains to impersonate brands and major global events each year. Proofpoint Digital Risk Protection customers from a wide variety of industries all faced threats from fraudulent domains with 76 percent finding “lookalike” domains posing as their brand, 96 percent found exact matches of their domains with a different TLD and 85 percent of retail brands found domains selling counterfeit goods. The company’s researchers also observed email activity for fraudulent domains to discover that 94 percent of it customers found that at least one of their fraudulent domain detections was sending email. You may have seen recent news coverage of customers of financial services companies falling victim to social engineering scams. Schieffer, Bob. “Presidential Perks.” CBS News. However, DMARC adoption levels to differ from region to region. Out of the regions classified by IATA, China & North Asia has the lowest level of DMARC adoption with 85 percent of airlines operating in the region having no published policy at all. Proofpoint’s research shows that only seven percent of airlines are proactively blocking fraudulent emails from reaching the inboxes of their customers. Proofpoint highlighted how the launch of the .dev TLD in February was immediately followed by 30 percent of its customers finding potentially fraudulent domains using the new TLD with their brand name just two weeks after its launch. With less than three weeks to the Oct. 20 election, local anti-crime community group Wake Up Surrey made an official complaint to the Surrey RCMP on Sept.
Surrey’s Chief Election Officer Anthony Capuccinello Iraci has assured voters that the integrity of the elections process is intact as allegations of widespread election fraud involving the South Asian community grip Surrey’s 2018 campaign. Texas Securities Commissioner Travis J. Iles entered an emergency action to stop Mirror Trading International PTY LTD, a South African international, multilevel marketing get-rich-quick scheme. “Unfortunately when this type of fraud occurs, especially in our South Asian community, that it’s targeted toward the most vulnerable – the tradesmen, the labourers, the new immigrants. To avoid student loan forgiveness scams, it’s important to know who these companies are and what services they provide. Scammers don’t disclose fees before you apply for a loan. A. Bank staff can immediately disable your online banking access and cards to prevent scammers from carrying out further fraudulent transactions. You will commonly find the same exact wifi cards being sold for up to a 10th of the price. The order also accused Mirror Trading and Steynberg of violating the same state laws. Bank-related phishing scams are of particular concern as the number of cases surged more than 20-fold to 898 in the first half of this year, from just 34 in the same period last year. Th is article was do ne by GSA Content Gen erator Demoversi on.
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