Scams: The Phishing Email

Let us know if your details are accurate

Just the other day, I received this email from Revolut asking me to confirm that my details were accurate. I know that I haven’t logged into my Revolut account for several months, and so I wasn’t particularly surprised to receive it.

However, when I read it – and you can do the same by clicking the button below – I could see why people continually fall for scam emails. I’m not saying that the Revolut email was a scam, but it used engagement techniques right out of the phishing playbook. 

All these techniques are used by legitimate marketeers to engage customers, develop a need and a sense of urgency and then provide easy-option links and buttons to complete the deal.

Their presence in legitimate emails effectively legitimatises their use in scam emails.  

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