Remember that whenever you receive a suspicious email, you should contact the company that the email supposedly came from. Cybercriminals often use email, attaching fake documents. For the safety of your electronic equipment and the data stored on it, do not open such messages.
At first glance, the invoice may look very credible. It is delivered to the customer’s email address in accordance with the billing period. The message also contains logos. However, remember that whenever you receive a suspicious email that at first glance appears to come from a known institution, you should contact it and clarify the matter.
The purpose of such messages is to install malware on recipients’ devices. The content and purported sender are selected to intrigue the recipient or gain their trust, thereby encouraging them to take a specific action—for example, open an attachment or visit a particular website.
A person who clicks on the active buttons “Download the detailed invoice” or “Click to find out more” is asked to enter a code. At that moment, malware is downloaded onto the customer’s computer. All data on the computer is blocked, and the following message appears on the screen: The perpetrators demand a transfer in the virtual currency bitcoin in exchange for providing the code that will unlock the data on the computer.
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