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Vishing Scam Awareness

Vishing Scam Awareness: Stop Voice Phishing Cold

In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received over 298,000 complaints related to phishing and its variants — including vishing — resulting in losses exceeding $18.7 billion across all reported cybercrime categories. Voice phishing, or vishing, is one of the fastest-growing attack vectors because it bypasses

Carl B. Johnson Jul 30, 2026 5 min read
Vishing Scam Awareness

Vishing Scam Awareness: Stop Voice Phishing Cold

In July 2020, a teenager and two accomplices called Twitter employees, posed as IT staff, and convinced them to hand over internal credentials. Within hours, they'd hijacked 130 high-profile accounts — including Barack Obama, Elon Musk, and Apple — and ran a Bitcoin scam that netted over $100,000 in

Carl B. Johnson Apr 21, 2022 7 min read