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Don't believe the fraud emails
When you receive an e-mail like the one on the left, first change the password of your e-mail address, and if you're wondering what's next, read our article below.
You've been hacked by mail doesn't mean all your information has been compromised. With many simple e-mail programs, the sender can pretend to have sent you an e-mail from your own e-mail. Or it may have been sent with an e-mail address similar to your e-mail address.
Spoofers, scammers, or the sender (malicious) set up an email program using one of their own email addresses. When filling out the form for the e-mail program, it is sufficient to write the e-mail address of the sender in the From field.
The main reason for this is that the SMTP protocol is not a very reliable protocol.
However, when you receive such an email, we recommend that you change your email password first. Afterwards, you can see that you can send an e-mail to yourself from many websites such as https://www.anonymailer.net/ so that you can understand how simple this job is.
These e-mails, which start with a hard proof and persuasion, continue by telling you what they can do or do. Finally, it gives you a bitcoin or a different payment account and writes the ransom information that it will receive from you. It gives you a short time like 24 or 48 hours, so you don't panic and make rational decisions.
Attack types of such mails; It has given many names such as mail spoofing, scammail, sextortion. You can actually reach the result by deleting them without pressing any links in these e-mails. Of course, if you receive such mail very often, you will be disturbed.
What do you do to combat this problem, such as constant spam mail? Many e-mail providers in Turkey and around the world, also known as hosting, will help you create an SPF record in your DNS to clarify the appropriate IP address for your e-mail address. The SPF record helps the receiving mail servers that control the record determine whether an email is spam. In this way, you passed the 1st level.
In other words, if the person sending the email using your email as the From is spamming others, an SPF record would be able to help the receiving mail servers recognize that the spam was sent by someone other than you.
Unfortunately, there isn't exactly a way to prevent spammers from spoofing your address. As MSK Global, we hope that the e-mail system you use implements both SPF and DMARC and you will not see these targeted e-mails. They should go directly to the junk folder called the spam folder. If your email account gives you control of spam options, you can make them a hard wall with stricter filters. Of course, these strict filter policies can also filter some legal messages. We recommend that you check your spam folder once in a while.
The main reason for this is that the SMTP protocol is not a very reliable protocol.
However, when you receive such an email, we recommend that you change your email password first. Afterwards, you can see that you can send an e-mail to yourself from many websites such as https://www.anonymailer.net/ so that you can understand how simple this job is.
These e-mails, which start with a hard proof and persuasion, continue by telling you what they can do or do. Finally, it gives you a bitcoin or a different payment account and writes the ransom information that it will receive from you. It gives you a short time like 24 or 48 hours, so you don't panic and make rational decisions.
Attack types of such mails; It has given many names such as mail spoofing, scammail, sextortion. You can actually reach the result by deleting them without pressing any links in these e-mails. Of course, if you receive such mail very often, you will be disturbed.
What do you do to combat this problem, such as constant spam mail? Many e-mail providers in Turkey and around the world, also known as hosting, will help you create an SPF record in your DNS to clarify the appropriate IP address for your e-mail address. The SPF record helps the receiving mail servers that control the record determine whether an email is spam. In this way, you passed the 1st level.
In other words, if the person sending the email using your email as the From is spamming others, an SPF record would be able to help the receiving mail servers recognize that the spam was sent by someone other than you.
Unfortunately, there isn't exactly a way to prevent spammers from spoofing your address. As MSK Global, we hope that the e-mail system you use implements both SPF and DMARC and you will not see these targeted e-mails. They should go directly to the junk folder called the spam folder. If your email account gives you control of spam options, you can make them a hard wall with stricter filters. Of course, these strict filter policies can also filter some legal messages. We recommend that you check your spam folder once in a while.
MSK Global Recommendations for corporate companies
- Get your e-mail address from secure infrastructure providers
- Use a next generation firewall in your company
- Use Antivirus Programs effectively
- In companies with more users, use Active Domain infrastructure
- For applications that will give importance to DLP , EDR and DNS security, contact MSK Global.
- The settings are must be in world standarts ; VLan etc. of your network infrastructure.
You may have encountered this mail attack attempt by fraudsters for a long time.
So is this real? Or is it a phishing attack on us with the mail sent to our e-mail address?
