Telstra Email Scam
Yikes - heads up
The Telstra email scam has become one of the largest scams affecting Telstra customers. Since 2023, when Telstra switched to its latest email system, the spam filtering has been ineffective at blocking scam emails for well-known phishing scams, leading to many Telstra customers losing control of their email accounts and Telstra accounts in general.
Telstra Email Scam: How It Works, Evolves, and How to Recover - CyberShack
Discover how the Telstra email scam tricks users into giving up their credentials, how it’s evolved with passkeys and email forwarding, and the key steps to recover your account if affected.
Staff Writers
Anyone who has fallen victim to the scam won’t know until they are no longer getting emails, and people are ringing them asking if they are OK. At this stage, the scammer has already had control of the account for a while.
Just marvelous. If you have friends or family running on Telstra email addresses, might be wise to give them a heads up.
Just quietly, this is why you need an egress firewall, and why you need to run a secure DNS system on your router other than the default ISP DNS system. You can do this on your mobile as well. Reference below but there are others.
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No - it's not fool proof; you can set up your browser with similar defenses as well.
Never stops.
#enoughsaid