Phishing Scams

According to this message, your email account password is about to expire. It instructs you to click a link if you want to keep using the same password. 

According to this email, which purports to be from Facebook, your Facebook account has been “temporarily disabled for identity check”. 

According to this would-be notification email, which purports to be from Amazon, an order has been placed via your account. 

According to this email, South African tax agency SARS has confirmed your filing and credited your account with your refund.

According to this email, the “server administrator’ has sent you a confidential image.  Supposedly, you can click a button in the email to view the image. 

Keep an eye out for fake Microsoft emails that claim that you’ve received a voicemail and should click a link to listen to it.  

According to this message, which purports to be from “Mail Control”, I sent a request to terminate my email account. 

According to this email, which was supposedly sent by Apple, your account has expired and you can read more information in an attached PDF.

If you use the remote access service LogMeIn, keep an eye out for a fake email claiming that a security update has…