Date: Investigation: Investigation into phishing emails, messages and phone calls Officers carrying out investigation: Incident Number Type of Communication Official sounding source Sense of urgency in expected response Implied threat Makes the recipient feel anxious Makes the recipient feel curious, hopeful or excited Offers something that seems too good to be true Asks for personal details Encourages the recipient to click on a link Asks the recipient to download a file Investigation: Phishing Messages CYBER CRIME EMERGENCY RESPONSE UNIT
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Date: Investigation: Investigation into phishing emails, messages and phone calls Officers carrying out investigation:
Incident
Number
Type of
Communication
Official sounding
source
Sense of urgency
in expected
response
Implied threat Makes the
recipient feel
anxious
Makes the
recipient feel
curious, hopeful
or excited
Offers something
that seems too
good to be true
Asks for personal
details
Encourages the
recipient to click
on a link
Asks the recipient
to download a file
Investigation: Phishing MessagesCYBER CRIME
EMERGENCY RESPONSE UNIT
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Context:
The recipient did think
that her computer had
been running a bit
slower and was keen to
get this sorted.
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Dear Customer
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Hello,This is an urgunt notice regardings email [email protected]. Your email is reported for sending spam email to your contacts. In order to protect your contacts from further attack we ask you to download the following to your computer, this willdisable further problems:
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