{"id":43655,"date":"2013-05-20T18:07:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T18:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=43655"},"modified":"2013-05-20T18:07:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T18:07:51","slug":"walmart-warns-of-phishing-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/walmart-warns-of-phishing-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Warns of Phishing Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h3>Walmart Warns of Phishing Scam <\/h3>\n<p>By Stu Sjouwerman, for KnowBe4.com Security Awareness Training<\/p>\n<p>Wal-Mart took special effort this week and warned customers of an unusually &#8216;high quality&#8217; phishing email that tries to get personal and credit information. They stated on their corporate site: &#8220;There was a false email sent to a number of people this morning claiming to be from Walmart.com. This email looks like a confirmation of a purchase made on Walmart.com, but is actually a phishing email attempting to gather information from the recipient,\u201d they said in a statement. &#8220;Again, this email is not from Walmart.com and it is important that recipients do not click on any links in the email or respond in any way.&#8221;  Here is how it looks, note the only immediate Red Flag you can see is the &#8216;wallmart&#8217; spelling with 2 l&#8217;s in the &#8216;From&#8217; address. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/walmart-phishing-scam1-resized-600.png\" alt=\"walmart-phishing-scam1-resized-600\" width=\"600\" height=\"619\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/walmart-phishing-scam1-resized-600.png 600w, https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/walmart-phishing-scam1-resized-600-290x300.png 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><BR CLEAR=LEFT><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.knowbe4.com\/bid\/285456\/Phishing-Scam-Of-The-Week-Walmart-com\" target=\"_blank\">Article continued here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This excerpt appears with permission from knowbe4.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/walmart150.jpg\" alt=\"walmart150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43660\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The corporate giant has made a special effort to warn the public about a new email phishing scam. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4352],"tags":[280],"class_list":["post-43655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knowbe4-com","tag-phishing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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