PSA: personalized phishing scam
Oct. 3rd, 2024 01:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ursulaMy personal information was stolen during the recent AT&T data breach.
Today, I got an email asking me to call the writer back, in reference to a made-up account number, because I might be eligible for student loan forgiveness. There are two obvious problems with this message:
(1) Due to a bunch of undergrad scholarships and a generous postdoc fellowship, I haven't had student loans for more than a decade.
(2) The email included the address of an apartment where I lived for exactly one year, many years ago. Coincidentally, that's also the one year I had an AT&T phone plan.
Keep an eye on your business emails, especially if your life has been less peripatetic than mine! I have a feeling these fakes are only going to get more persuasive.
Today, I got an email asking me to call the writer back, in reference to a made-up account number, because I might be eligible for student loan forgiveness. There are two obvious problems with this message:
(1) Due to a bunch of undergrad scholarships and a generous postdoc fellowship, I haven't had student loans for more than a decade.
(2) The email included the address of an apartment where I lived for exactly one year, many years ago. Coincidentally, that's also the one year I had an AT&T phone plan.
Keep an eye on your business emails, especially if your life has been less peripatetic than mine! I have a feeling these fakes are only going to get more persuasive.