Wednesday 30 August 2017

Essential Phone phishing scam: Wrongdoers try to steal customers' sensitive data through email


It seems that select to-be adopters of the Essential Phone have fallen victims to a lowly phishing scam. Wrongdoers, posing as Essential Products Customer Care, have tried to acquir pictures of official document—driver’s license, state ID, or passport— from customers, leading them to believe that said documents need to be presented in order to validate their Essential Phone orders. 

The scam email has been sent from customercare@essential.com, which would seem like it would be a legitimate email of Essential. However, the company's customer support ...

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