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Fresh Security Alert – Scam Email from Australian Post – Don’t Get Caught

Posted by FreshCare Support

Recently there has been a large number of Scam/Phishing Emails in circulation.

The Fresh Email platform continues to be protected by enterprise grade security software.

In a world where scammers are getting smarter and their scams more sophisticated, sometimes inappropriate emails may slip through. Fresh Look IT takes your security very seriously.

Remember, not every email is real.

Recently a user received what appeared to be an Australia Post email.

The user was unsure about the email, however as one of their other offices was expecting a parcel to be dropped off at their local Australia Post they forwarded the email to their colleague.

Their colleague received the email and, as they were expecting something to be delivered to their local post office, they clicked the link. The link took them to a “Virus Injection” website and their computer was injected with a zero day virus known as “Crypto Locker” click here to read what this very nasty virus Crypto Locker does

This virus goes through everything it can see and renames the files to *.encrypted and then asks you to pay a large amount of money to have the files unlocked.

There is no recovery, except from backup or paying the ransom.

Luckily for this user all data was recoverable and their computer returned to normal, thanks to the FreshCare team. However many other people have not been so lucky and have either lost all data, or paid upto ten thousand dollars to get data back.

click here for a guided created by the FreshCare team on how to identify a Scam/Phishing emails.

Please take a minutes to read and be in the know on how to keep yourself protected.

Remember, if ever in doubt, delete or call the FreshCare team on 1300 761 598 for guidance.