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How a College Student Lost $10,000 to "The IRS" | Huntress

2021-06-03 · Read original ↗

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T1657Financial Theft
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"how a college student lost $ 10, 000 to & quot ; the irs & quot ; | huntress back when i worked in the division of student affairs, i came across an unsettling report from our university ’ s police department. one of my students ( let ’ s call them ‘ jamie ’ ) became a victim of …"
T1566.002Spearphishing Link
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", because i hear about those ‘ nigerian prince ’ scams all the time and laugh, thinking to myself how gullible someone must be to fall for something like that. but when i really think about my situation, i felt like it was a really important emergency. and felt like i needed to a…"
T1566.002Spearphishing Link
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"speaker ] the scammer ended the call. the uber driver kindly canceled the fare and returned to campus, and jamie contacted the university police department. the responding officer contacted apple to see if they could freeze the gift cards, to which apple said the funds had alread…"
T1566.001Spearphishing Attachment
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"a scam. ” but jamie was a first - year college student, whose parents had always filed taxes on their behalf. let ’ s face it : parents handling their dependents ’ taxes is rather common for college students. the body of the email instructed jamie to click on a hyperlink and begi…"

Summary

In this testimonial, learn firsthand from one of our Security Awareness Consultants at Curricula about how a fake IRS phishing scam worked on one student.