Question

Kazuo’s grandmother received an email that seemed to be from her cell phone company. It stated that she needed to update her contact information and provided a link to a website where she could confirm her email address. She followed the directions and then discovered that her email account was automatically sending the same email to all of her contacts. What was Kazuo’s grandmother a victim of?

(1 point)

phishing


spam


identity theft


secondary mail

Answer 1

phishing

She was tricked by a fraudulent message into giving access to her account; that's a phishing attack, which often leads to the account being used to send the same scam to all contacts.