US Department of Justice warns of phishing attacks using fake post-vaccine surveys to steal money from people or trick them into handing over their personal information. Attackers promise potential victims cash or prizes for filling out the fake surveys. Instead, they only harvest the filled-out personally identifiable information to fuel fraud schemes involving identity theft. The number of identity theft reports doubled last year compared to 2019, with a record of 1.4 million reports from consumers within a single year. New York’s Department of Financial Services also revealed details on an ongoing series of attacks that have already resulted in the theft of private info belonging to hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-doj-phishing-attacks-use-vaccine-surveys-to-steal-personal-info/