Getting Hacked Through GMAIL?! #scamming #hackers

19 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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Two people discuss how to spot phishing emails. Speaker B got a suspicious attachment from someone claiming to be a client, called them directly instead of opening it, and discovered their email was hacked. The lesson: verify by calling, never click links in suspicious emails, and change your password immediately.

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If it says spam in the subject line from whatever your email provider is, I don't know, you know, Google, whatever. Google usually automatically does a good job at sending those types of things to spam, right? But if you— if it does get, you know, don't click the links, bro.
Please. If you don't know who it's from, don't open it up. I had one the other day that looked really real from a client. And I was like, why are they sending me some, you know, like an attachment, right? So I didn't open it. I called the person on the phone. He was like, oh yeah, he goes, I think somebody hacked my email. I go, well, you better go like, you know, change the password and everything.