Warning on the intranet: “There are currently deceptively real phishing emails circulating that claim to be from the Bahn business portal.” We almost fell into the trap. The scam hit the nail on the head. The day before, Deutsche Bahn had actually changed its portal. With noticeable consequences: on that Sunday, bookings simply didn’t work. On Monday, the solution arrived by email that was supposed to explain everything. How can a phishing email be so perfectly coordinated? We take the route that experts suggest: don’t click on the link in the email, but go via the portals or apps themselves, in this case via bahn.de or the Bahn app. What’s strange is that you have to do exactly what the phishing email says to get to the point of booking your ticket. Did a Bahn employee write the phishing email? How else could the fraudsters know that the portal was being changed that day and that customers would have to make the necessary changes to their account? The argument of the IT warning department is plausible: if you hover the mouse over the address to which the links lead, a confusing string of around five hundred characters with the domain mjt.lu pops up. So: keep your hands off!
#recognize #phishing #emails