Verizon customers need to be on the lookout for fake emails that are a part of a phishing campaign against the carrier’s subscribers.
If you’re a Verizon customer, you need to be very alert. According to cybersecurity firm Fortra, scammers have started an active phishing campaign against Verizon customers. A phishing campaign means that emails pretending to be from Verizon are sent hoping to get the recipients who are Verizon customers to reveal key personal data so that they can take over the account, order new SIM cards, and take over the victim’s phone and wipe out their financial accounts.
The report says that the malicious actors behind this campaign have discovered a way for these emails to pass through security filters and end up in the victim’s inbox instead of the junk mail folder. The email looks like a legitimate Verizon invoice and it requests that you log into your Verizon account and click a link in the email. DO NOT DO IT!!! You will be handing your login information to the scammers.
