An Abney Associates Fraud Awareness Program: Mock
email scam ensnares hundreds of bureaucrats at Justice
Canada
OTTAWA – Many of the
Justice Department’s finest
legal minds are falling prey to
a garden-variety Internet
scam.
An internal survey shows
almost...
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An Abney Associates Fraud Awareness Program: Mock
email scam ensnares hundreds of bureaucrats at Justice
Canada
OTTAWA – Many of the
Justice Department’s finest
legal minds are falling prey to
a garden-variety Internet
scam.
An internal survey shows
almost 2,000 staff were
conned into clicking on a
phoney “phishing” link in their
email, raising questions about
the security of sensitive
information.
The department launched the
mock scam in December as a
security exercise, sending
emails to 5,000 employees to test their ability to recognize cyber fraud.
The emails looked like genuine communications from government or financial
institutions, and contained a link to a fake website that was also made to look like the
real thing.
Across the globe, an estimated 156 million of these so-called “phishing” emails are sent
daily, and anyone duped into clicking on the embedded web link risks transferring
confidential information – such as online banking passwords – to criminals.
The Justice Departm
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