Digital scams used to be easier to spot than picking out a ketchup stain on a white T-shirt. There were so many typos and false promises of riches if you helped foreign royalty. However, the nature of these threats has become more personalized, making them a bit trickier to discern fact from fiction.
"I have had family members receive notifications about having viruses on their computers," Michael Scheumack, a cybersecurity expert and IDIQ's chief marketing and innovation officer, told Kiplinger. "It turned out that it was bad-faith actors who created an elaborate ruse, setting up a fake help desk, and my family paid thousands of dollars for a fix they didn't need."
