Internet Scam: Voicemail Over Email Scam

This is a twist I hadn't heard of before, but it doesn't surprise me. It will probably work as a scam for awhile just because of its novelty.

For those of us who have phones at work that can email us notifications when we get a voice message, and even provide us a link to click on to listen to that voice message, we feel efficient and connected. Scammers see an opportunity. You knew they were going exploit it.

The fake notification emails appear to come from Microsoft Outlook referencing a call from an anonymous person. Some scammers are able to leverage the company catch-all email so it might say voice.mail@yourcompany.com but some scammers don't even make this effort to trick people. The email attachment appears to be a .WAV file but it is really an HTML file that will redirect you to a scammer's bogus website where it will either download malicious malware software to your computer (which will then scan your computer seeking passwords and logins to your banking account) or it might attempt to collect personal financial or login information from you right there on the fake site.

There's always that basic advice to not click on ANY links in emails that you are not 10,000% sure of it's origin.