Did you receive a Home Depot Email claiming to be from your Home Depot and including a link to a phishing website saying that that you’ve been selected to receive an exclusive offer via the embedded button in the email. Is the Home Depot Email Scam? Read this review to find out why you should be wary of such mails.
What is Home Depot Email Scams
Home Depot Email Scams are fraudulent mails sent by scammers to get your personal information so they can use it to scam you. They come in form email claiming to be from Home Depot, with a link to a phishing website. They are however links created by the scammers to obtain personal information from unsuspecting people. The link however links to other phishing websites that trick victims and also hacks their personal information.. However when one clicks on the links they inadvertently send their information to the scammers who uses it fraudulently.
Conclusion
Email provides us a convenient and powerful communications tool. Unfortunately, it also provides scammers and other malicious individuals an easy means for luring potential victims. The scams they attempt run from old-fashioned bait-and-switch operations to phishing schemes using a combination of email and bogus web sites to trick victims into divulging sensitive information.
From the foregoing it is clear that the Home Depot Email Scams are phishing scams, scammers use to get your personal information, Forward phishing emails to [email protected] (an address used by the Anti-Phishing Working Group, which includes ISPs, security vendors, financial institutions, and law enforcement agencies). Let the company or person that was impersonated know about the phishing scheme. And report it to the FTC at FTC.gov/Complaint.
Click here to read about other phishing scams that we have talked about.
July 10/22
I received an email from Home Depo about a free drill if I answer a few questions. I did then
noticed that the email asked for payment for delivery but the drill was free. I have been
trained to not give my Visa card etc. out to iffy emails. Why would I get a free drill and not
get free delivery. Is this a scam?