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A few days ago a family member was struck - they fell for an email that was disguised as an invite to an event, when it was really a hack. The card attached to the invite was not a card, but instead a download link to an attacker's screen control software.The suspicious email I got.This in turn led to them emailing their entire inbox a similar type of scam which then arrived at my email inbox. I read the subject and immediately thought - "Well I can't make that date" and texted Alyson that we were invited to something that was a conflict.As I opened the email and realized there was no details about the event I texted Alyson again saying it was pretty strange for such a thing. I then jumped into a few meetings and shortly after I was getting a call from the above family member. Very clever of the attacker if intended since 50 days away from a wedding means we have lots of little events with digital invites, so it blended in at first notice.She quickly mentioned she did not invite…

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