Wrong Numbers, Fake Invoices, and Catfishing: If you’re online, you’re at risk. “We spoke to three security experts about what you can do to protect yourself…In a video call, Bogdan Botezatu, Bitdefender’s director of threat research, warned that despite the numerous ways scammers go after their targets, spam email remains the most prevalent. Using telemetry from Bitdefender customers, Botezatu gave me a high-level view of what email scams people are most likely to encounter.  “We have seen that roughly 96% of worldwide email traffic was spam,” said Botezatu, citing statistics from June 2020 to 2021. He explained to me that much of this was commercial spam—harmless, if irritating, advertisements. Of the spam that was in some way malicious, the most common type was phishing messages, which aim to convince targets to simply hand over important information by pretending to be a company or authority figure. The least common type was spam that included malware. Extortion spam—where the attacker claims, usually falsely, to have obtained explicit photos or videos of the target—was right in the middle…”