Despite popular perception, when it comes to phishing email scams neither is in the top ten:
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Despite popular perception, when it comes to phishing email scams neither is in the top ten:
Phishing Emails Most Commonly Originate from Eastern Europe
The five countries sending the highest proportion of phishing emails are from Eastern Europe
When it comes to phone calls, India is in the lead but many of the scams originate from otherwise-reputable BPO companies so blocking them is problematic at best.
Just looking at the "From" address in the email client program/website isn't enough to determine if the message is fake as the From header is trivial to spoof. If you have access to the mail headers then it's possible to determine if the message was sent from where it claims to have been sent from.
Even so I high proportion don't seem to make that much effort. A quick mouse over is usually the most that is needed.
Depends on the level of effort that the scammers are putting in. A lot of the less skilled ones will be easily detected as the display name and email address won't match, but it only takes a tiny amount of effort to spoof that convincingly.
I wonder if they used their TV advert methodology for deciding which valuation they gave, which involves six members of staff in a large circular format dancing on enormous calculators for a set period of time?
Spam can, surely?
Was it definitely the same number? E.g. if it was an international number was it perhaps presented in +<country-code> format the first time and 00<country-code> format the second time?
That is extremely odd then (and slightly worrying!) if they've figured out a way to get past network-level blocking.
There's a way round blocking - and it started when you could block landlines from accepting withheld numbers.
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No, even if you have a number blocked, when a caller prefixes the number with 1470 it gets round the blocking systems in place as it technically is a different number calling you albeit its the same one.
Aha - that makes sense - though I suppose in the UK, the lookup could just be based on the last 11 digits to alleviate this "workaround"
Do you have a link to anywhere this is documented. While I don't doubt that you may have experienced this, as far as I know, this isn't the expected behaviour. Network codes (141, 1470, 1471, etc.) shouldn't normally be passed through to the called party.
This was the "Hi Mum. I'm texting you from a friend's phone..." scam text message.
No. I can't remember the number now - I'll look up what it was in my 7726 text history.
Yup. Package delivery scams increase exponentially in November/December.
