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    From EDU Account Takeover to Job Scam Abuse: West African Fraud Actors Target Universities

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    Key Takeaways Threat actors are using compromised university email accounts to distribute job-based advanced fee fraud. College students are uniquely vulnerable due to financial pressure and trust in institutional email. Threat actors leverage form-based credential harvesting rather than traditional, web-based phishing kits. These campaigns demonstrate multi-stage monetization, not isolated scam activity. Overview Proofpoint is tracking a cluster of threat activity specifically targeting U.S. universities. The fraud ecosystem observed in campaigns aligns with known advance fee fraud (AFF)…

    Source: https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/edu-account-takeover-job-scam-abuse-west-african-fraud-actors-target

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