Learn how to identify and stop impostor email threats (also known as email fraud). This infographic describes the four types of impostor emails, who they target, and the most-used topics for subject lines.

According to the FBI, this type of scam has siphoned more than $2.3 billion from more than 17,000 victims—and those are just reported incidents. Impostor emails succeed for three primary reasons:

•   They look and feel legitimate
•   They do not include a malicious link or malware attachment
•   They do not arrive in high enough volumes to raise red flags in most anti-spam tools

Because these threats do not use malicious attachments or URLs, impostor emails can evade solutions that look for only malicious content or behavior. That’s why they require a different approach. An effective solution must dynamically analyze the attributes of all email as it arrives and detect anomalies that point to an impostor. 

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