Important Information: Scam campaigns targeting Luxembourg citizens and employees

E-mails are not secure by default. Stay vigilant.

More and more scam campaigns are being observed, such as “Fake Police” or “Apple Gift Card” scams, targeting Luxembourg citizens and employees.

E-mail scams are opportunistic attacks. E-mails are not secure by default. Stay vigilant.

You can compare the security of an email with the security of a postcard. Everybody can write whatever he wants and even spoof the sender email address. It is just more easy, faster and cheap to send emails.

There is not much we can do against this practice. Like we cannot stop people sending postcards.

The best practice is to be vigilant and don’t blindly trust any email by default, as well as to share this knowledge with other people so that the attack surface get lower over time and these attacks are no longer worthwhile.

To go further, please read our in-depth Topic of the Month articles on Phishing, Social Engineering and Ransomware.