Scam Asking For Money For Police

The Peoria County Sheriff’s Office has alerted the community of a phone call and mail scam asking for money to support the Illinois Police Association.

The mailing address comes from Wisconsin. The phone number is 309-832-0500. Officials believe the call is prerecorded.

If you call the number back, it will ask for your full name, phone number, and address so you may be put on the Do Not Call list.

Officials say that this is a scam and to hang up on the caller and throw away any mail from them.

The police will not solicit money over the phone or by mail.

Voicemail Phishing Email Scams are Targeting User Passwords

A devilishly ingenious scam plays on your user’s familiarity with business voicemail, seeking to compromise online credentials without raising concerns.
 

The phishing email appears to come from the legitimate voicemail vendor, RingCentral but includes a Microsoft logo (no doubt, to make the user associate Microsoft with this process – more on that in a moment).

Using subjects such as Voice:Message, Voice Delivery Report, or PBX Message, these emails contain another email as the attachment (to avoid detection by email scanning security solutions) containing the actual phish (shown below). 

The user is then prompted to click a link to Listen to the voicemail. In reality, the link takes the user to a spoofed Microsoft login page where they are promoted not once, but twice to logon (likely to ensure the passwords typed match so the cybercriminals can be certain the account details are correct).

As a nice touch, once the logon has completed, a generic voicemail does play – probably to throw users off the scent of this being a scam.