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Email scammers are taking advantage of coronavirus fears to impersonate health officials and trick people into giving up personal information

teases similar information, then uses malicious links to direct victims to a fake Microsoft Outlook portal that harvests credentials.last week urging people to stay on the lookout for phishing scams related to coronavirus. A CDC spokesperson did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.Check the sender's email domain and see if it matches the website of the organization they say they work for. Then, check the URLs included in the email.

In this case, when the misleading URL is copied and pasted from the email instead of clicked, it shows that the page doesn't actually exist.Scammers highlight the language of emergencies to make victims act more quickly. The WHO has urged people to resist giving in to panic and to think twice about whether an email looks legitimate. If the information is supposedly public, there's no reason to submit login credentials in order to see it.

 

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