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The scam that knows your name and home address heres what to do

Many UK residents woke up yesterday to a rude internet shock: a scam email that greeted them with their real name and home address. The email wasnt trying to disguise that it came from a neer-do-well. The scamminess of the text made the email more worrisome, and thus paradoxically more likely to squeeze victims into action than a well-written email from an obviously unlikely source. To get you to agree to run their malicious macro program, the crooks use what you might call a bait-and-switch trick.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/03/30/the-scam-that-knows-your-name-and-home-address-heres-what-to-do/

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