heads up: email hacking attempts

RE: heads up: email hacking attempts

Rob Loxley — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 07:21:08 GMT

[quote userid="29183" url="~/f/non-clinical-questions/31193/heads-up-email-hacking-attempts/247315#247315"]I would love some sort of app which could change all my passwords on websites/banks/Google/etc with one click at times like this..![/quote]

and when that gets hacked you're really scuppered!

RE: heads up: email hacking attempts

William Easson — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 19:47:22 GMT

Thanks for sharing this, Alasdair. It must have been horrible experience for you.

Spouse v.1 recently had a scam call from our bank. Knowing they just about never call us, she put it on speaker and she strung them along, but it was very convincing, and I do worry that more trusting/less cynical people would have given them everything they need.

I would love some sort of app which could change all my passwords on websites/banks/Google/etc with one click at times like this..!

RE: heads up: email hacking attempts

Anthony Dennison — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 12:58:51 GMT

The IVC IT team send out regular phishing test emails to make people aware of the dangers of it. If you click the link, it flashes up and says ' you failed, try better' (not actually what it says but you get the idea). If you report it as phishing you get a 'well done you clever sausage' email.

RE: heads up: email hacking attempts

Arlo Guthrie — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:56:29 GMT

The really remarkable thing about it (as one of the recipients of the phishing email), was I saw an email from Alasdair. I read it. I thought 'that's strange' (it was asking me to click a link and sign a doc for Alasdair, which I wouldn't expect him to do without having explained what it was first).

Also, it did refer to him as the office manager, which I thought was an odd career change (but maybe someone had asked him to manage a veterinary office for a period of time).

So I emailed him back saying I had not clicked it thinking may be a virus.

Quick as a flash, they replied (from Alasdair's email) ... "not virus, open document".

I thought that was strangely perfunctory from Alasdair, so I emailed back saying better ring if you want me to sign.

I SO nearly clicked it!

The moral of the story is NEVER click a link to something where you might be asked to share your details, even if it comes from the bona fide email address of someone you know.

RE: heads up: email hacking attempts

Beats — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:55:32 GMT

thank you for sharing