COVID-19 Rogue’s Gallery
Stay safe online: Spot the latest COVID-19 scams and phishing attacks.
Hackers are opportunists. With the current pandemic outbreak, there have been an increase in phishing emails, fake SMS, and fake social media messages.
Usually offering people money, or false information, for the COVID-19 disruption – these communications are often riddled with ransomware or are designed to steal credentials.
If you think it’s suspicious, we strongly recommend forwarding any message to your IT support function.
If in any doubt, don’t click.
Here is a collection of the scams you need to be aware of.
Please familiarise yourself with them below:
Click on each image in our Covid-19 Rogue’s Gallery to enlarge it and see just how convincing they can be.
We want you to stay safe and be able to spot ANY of these phishing emails.
Quizzes are already very engaging pieces of content on the internet. People typically enjoy filling them 
out – especially if there is a reward involved. Hackers are therefore promising ‘credit’ or ‘coupons’ for completing a short quiz, or questionnaire.
However, the reality is that hackers use these quizzes to deliver malware and capture personal information. This data allows hackers to leverage the information to attack businesses.
Watch out for these.
