The Email Scam That Nearly Worked On Me

It’s easy for scammers to impersonate real companies — because real companies often behave like scam artists

Clive Thompson

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Illustrated cartoon image of a hacker in a hoodie at computer, surrounded by images of broken locks and broken credit cards
via Ayesha Raheem at Pixabay

Two days ago I received an email that appeared to be from Norton, the makers of antivirus software.

The email said they’d just charged me a ton of money on autopay. A screenshot …

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Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net