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+title:  "Fishing for Data"
+date:   2021-01-20 08:28:00 +0000
+categories: data, identity, security
+author: Diviyesh Patel
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+It’s becoming more apparent these days. Businesses under attack by imitation.
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+If you see emails or text messages claiming to be from a well known company, how do you tackle it?
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+Delete it, ignore it, report it as spam via email providers/services, or report it to the official company who they claim to be?
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+Now a days, many medium to large scale companies have a security division who will investigate further.
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+So how do you report them?
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+Easy, just search for the company and keyword ‘report spam’ in any search engine.
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+Ignoring any advertisements, usually you’ll get the correct website along with how to report scams.
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+The procedure is simple just forward the fake email to them or forward the fake text message to ‘7726’ for further investigation.
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+Word of advice just don’t go clicking any links within the email or text message, nor fill any details via the link.