Heads-up everyone. Be on the lookout for Winter Fuel payment scams that are being sent out by fraudsters via SMS in the UK. Warn your relatives and neighbours. (mastodon.green)

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Heads-up everyone. Be on the lookout for Winter Fuel payment scams that are being sent out by fraudsters via SMS in the UK. Warn your relatives and neighbours.

More details in my article on the Tripwire blog: https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/winter-fuel-payment-scam-targets-uk-citizens-sms

#cybersecurity #scam #sms

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[-] christopherkunz@chaos.social 2 points 2 days ago

@gcluley@mastodon.green Also, I'm not sure if that's a thing over there, but we have lots of scam schemes around firewood. Usually, cheap wood offered on Classifieds, prepayment arranged, delivery never happens.

[-] gcluley@mastodon.green 1 points 1 day ago

@christopherkunz@chaos.social Yup, the guys at Group-IB warned about fire wood scams:

https://www.group-ib.com/blog/fake-wood-scams/

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