With people spending more time at home and online, “spear phishing” is growing in popularity as a scam used by unsavory individuals to get your personal information. Most of us know about “phishing,” which is a con scammers use to send spam emails and text messages to entice you to click on malicious links that take you to fake websites.
However, most people can easily identify “phishing” scams since the links are easily distinguishable from real website addresses. Now, with COVID-19 and more people spending more time online and working online from home, “spear phishing” takes things to another level.
