A fraudster tried tricking me with a fake PDF invoice attachment — Here’s how I knew it was a scam

Think Twice Before Opening That PDF. It Could Be a Popular Scam.

Gone are the days when you could easily spot a scam by the phrase “Nigerian prince” and “bank draft.” Likewise, I’ve lately noticed scammers have made what must’ve been a big push to rid their scam messages of giveaway spelling and grammatical errors. They no longer, for the most part, look like somebody spilled a bowl of alphabet soup on the rug and kicked it onto the computer screen. Cisco’s Talos Intelligence Center released a report on July …

A fraudster tried tricking me with a fake PDF invoice attachment — Here’s how I knew it was a scam

The signs were there in the email screaming ‘this is a scam’ and I should have deleted it right away but I wanted to investigate. Here's how to identify a fake email scam.