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Telco giant Telstra has lifted the lid on the checks it uses to help protect its customers against email, SMS and phone call scams.
On average, between January and October this year, Telstra Asia Pacific CISO Narelle Devine said the company blocked around 332 million incoming scam and potentially unwanted emails to Bigpond customers per month – over a third (38 per cent) of all inbound emails to Bigpond accounts.
Broken down, this means it blocks more than 11 million scam emails per day, 7685 per minute and 128 per second.
Devine revealed as part of its Cleaner Pipes program, it was detecting and blocking more email, SMS and phone call scams with improved spam and scam filters than ever.
According to ScamWatch, email is the third most commonly reported mode of attack (33,287 reports) after phone (51,234) and SMS scams (50,947).
“If you’ve ever dug into your email junk folder, you probably wouldn’t be surprised to know that the pure volume of unwanted emails can be enormous. But what you don’t see is the number of malicious emails blocked before they even reach you,” she said.
Some of the most common scams Devine said include emails containing malware attachments,…
