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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revealed its findings on the most impersonated companies during 2023 in a bid to help potential customers and victims to better prepare themselves against such attacks.

The report found the most-spoofed company, with a total of 52,000 impersonation scam reports, was Best Buy and its subsidiary, Geek Squad, amounting to $15 million in losses.

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Global cloud hosting provider CLDY released 2022 email statistics around and affecting small businesses email usage.

SINGAPORE, October 24, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Global cloud hosting provider CLDY released 2022 email statistics around and affecting small and medium businesses (SMB) email usage.

From a sample size of over 15,000 email users across 3,000 businesses, the email statistics show a trend of increasing email-based attacks, scams, and spam. The largest increase…

CLDY Hosting – Email Hosting, Web Hosting

Global cloud hosting provider CLDY released 2022 email statistics around and affecting small businesses email usage.

SINGAPORE, October 24, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Global cloud hosting provider CLDY released 2022 email statistics around and affecting small and medium businesses (SMB) email usage.

From a sample size of over 15,000 email users across 3,000 businesses, the email statistics show a trend of increasing email-based attacks, scams, and spam. The largest increase…

SINGAPORE — The number of phishing scams in Singapore jumped from 16 cases in 2017 to 5,020 last year, said Minister of State of Home Affairs Desmond Tan in Parliament on Tuesday (15 February).

Overall, there were 23,931 cases of scams reported in 2021, a four-fold jump from 5,147 cases in 2017, Tan added.

Tan was delivering the Ministerial Statement on behalf of the Home Affairs Minister on strengthening enforcement and publication education in the aftermath of the OCBC phishing scam.

A total of $13.7 million was lost in scams involving SMSes impersonating OCBC Bank, and affected 790 customers, which started…

On one hand, I suppose it’s flattering to think online crooks so often create fake copies of the Mirror’s website because it’s a trusted name.

On the other, it is horrible to think that anyone might be taken in by one of these sites.

They crop up all over the place, one example I’ve seen this week starting with an advert on danword.com, a website for crossword solvers.

It featured a picture of Richard Branson and under the heading ‘Breaking News’ gushed about new investment opportunities.

Clicking on the advert took you to what looked like an online Mirror news story, with our logo and page layout style.

Only the url, cryptoitscool.com, gave away that fact it was fake.

The “story” claimed that Branson had gone onto a chat show to reveal that he had invested £27million…