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Feel free to edit, copy/paste the advice below: Microsoft SharePoint Fax ScamĪn email is being sent to corporate email accounts asking recipients to click a link to view a Microsoft SharePoint e-fax. Why not help your colleagues stay safe and send them this little reminder. By being security aware you will build good security habits that will give you the tools to help stop fraud. The best way you can stay safe from phishing is to keep on top of all of the various tactics used by cybercriminals. Keeping things simple with a clear and obvious action for the recipient can be a good tactic in social engineering. Often cybercriminals rely on knee-jerk reactions to phishing campaigns. The message was simple, and in doing so, it prevented normal alarm bells caused by misspelling and poor language, from ringing. To avoid phishing scams such as this week’s SharePoint message scam, you need to be vigilant. The likelihood of this scam is that it will attempt to steal genuine SharePoint login credentials to then access a real SharePoint account. That is, if you click on the site, either your machine could be infected with malware or the site is recognised as a phishing site that will attempt to steal personal data and/or login credentials. The results, from two different online analysers ( Kaspersky and Sucuri) show that the website is a critical security risk. We copied the web address presented in the SharePoint message link and analysed it. What Happens if You Click the Malicious Link?


This week’s scam is a digital fax scam based on a Microsoft SharePoint email. Cybercriminals, as you will know if you read our Breaking Scams weekly post, will look for any opportunity to trick you into infecting your machine with malware, including spoof e-faxes.

Now, you tend to get e-Faxes or the digital fax the NHS has finally also banned paper faxes with a phasing out of fax machines by April 2020. When I think of fax machines, I imagine someone wearing a power suit with very large shoulder pads and using one of those brick mobile phones with the sticking out aerial.

A fax machine used a telephone line to send printed documents to another person with a fax machine. Remember the fax machine? At their peak of use, they were pretty high tech.
