...and if you get an unexpected email from a friend inviting you to do
something online - get back to your friend first and check that they really
sent it! :)
On Mon, 22 Oct 2018, 07:38 Gordon Ferguson, <gordon.ferguson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Friends,
Just received an email claiming to be from a friend and inviting me to
view a document from their account in Microsoft’s One Drive.
BEWARE: THIS IS A SCAM
If you click on the link, you will be taken to a bogus website which
will collect your One Drive login id and password - called 'phisihing'.
It looks very legitimate until you check the link and discover that it
is not https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-gb. Here is some info on this
phishing scam:
https://www.hoax-slayer.net/bogus-view-in-onedrive-emails-link-to-phishing-website
Not sure if a link to a site you have to login into is legitimate? DO
NOT use the link in the email, but rather login using your normal
method. Do online banking? NEVER login from a link, even if if it looks
like an email from your bank.
Be safe online,
Gordon