The FBI is warning against phishing emails related to charitable contributions, general financial relief, airline refunds and fake cures, testing kits and vaccines.
The authentic looking email from the World Health Organization isn't real at all but rather clever spam meant to steal personal information.representatives are offering so-called free COVID-19 tests — as long as you pay with a credit card for shipping.
"Two ingredients of a good scam are fear and confusion, and we have both of those right now," said Adam Gerber, consumer watchdog at U.S. PIRG, a federation of public interest research groups. "So, it's a playground for people who want to take advantage of others."corporate security last week discovered a particularly malicious email spam campaign that mimics the World Health Organization. But that's where it ends.
The spike from Vietnam followed a fake email campaign over the weekend that asked for contributions to a fake WHO bitcoin wallet. He predicted that the next wave of scams and spam would target businesses whose employees are largely working from home and potentially more vulnerable. In its first enforcement action against COVID-19 fraud, the Justice Department announced Sunday that it filed a civil complaint against the operators of the website "coronavirusmedicalkit.com" for "engaging in a wire fraud scheme seeking to profit from the confusion and widespread fear surrounding COVID19." The site claimed to offer consumers access to the World Health Organization's vaccine kits in exchange for a shipping charge of $4.95 paid by credit card.
"Scammers are offering COVID-19 tests to Medicare beneficiaries in exchange for personal details, including Medicare information. However, the services are unapproved and illegitimate," the HHS alert said.
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