Are from businesses you’re not expecting to hear from.Are not addressed to you by name, have poor English or omit personal details that a legitimate sender would include (e.g.This scam is a good reminder of the critical need to always be vigilant when clicking on any emails and be constantly on the lookout for any red flags.Īs a precaution, avoid clicking links in emails that: Cybercriminals behind this scam are banking on the timely nature of this email to trick users, who might actually be expecting such invitations this time of the year. They exploit distracted professionals who are in a rush to finish pending tasks before going on their holiday break.īecause of the festive season, it’s not uncommon to receive an e-invitation to the end-of-year festivities such as this in your inbox. While the phishing pages of this scam utilise high-quality branding elements of OneDrive (including its logo), the actual email contains several red flags that should alert users to its illegitimacy like spacing & formatting errors.įestive periods such as Christmas & New Year are a common time for cybercriminals to hit inboxes with email scams. MailGuard advises all recipients of this email to delete it immediately without any links. This is a phishing site designed to harvest users’ confidential details like their username & password. Users are advised that ‘to read the document’ they are to choose their respective email providers and log in to their accounts. It informs users that to view the invite, they need to ‘access OneDrive’.Ĭlicking on the link to ‘access document’ then leads users to another page, this time using fake ‘OneDrive’ branding. Unsuspecting recipients who click on the link to ‘Open’ the invite are then led to a fake Droplr-branded page containing the popular cloud-based file sharing platform’s logo. The email ends with a thank you note supposedly from ‘The AdobeCloud team’. A link is provided for users to ‘open’ the invitation.
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It informs recipients that the sender has “sent you a download link for “Invitations.pdf”. The email body contains the Adobe Document Cloud logo. From the samples MailGuard has seen, the ‘From’ and ‘To’ fields of the email contain the same email address. MailGuard has intercepted a phishing email scam masquerading as an e-invite to an ‘end of year event’.įirst detected on 10 th of December afternoon (AEST), the email is infiltrating inboxes using the subject ‘Invitation to our end of year event’.
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