09/16/2026
Scam emails are getting more sophisticated. Here’s an example that happened this last month - Colleague A received an email correspondence from Colleague B that claimed to have approved an invoice weeks earlier with the fictitious email correspondence pasted below. Disturbingly, the email correspondence included the real email address, title, and names of the colleagues; however, upon closer inspection one could tell that the email itself had not come from the company mail server but another email address, and though the information in the email signature had not been inaccurate, it differed from the usual sign-off.
There is more personal information available to scam artists than ever before, and scammers can use AI tools to scrape the internet for that information and incorporate it to individualize each scam message. That reduces cost for scammers for the individualized approach, which is likely to be more effective. Let’s all be vigilant and make sure to double-check the email addresses of the senders. Though that might be hacked too, many scams and phishing attempts can be prevented through that simple first step.
https://gstrustco.com/assets/Garden-State-WYW.pdf
