3rd stimulus check, COVID vaccine appointments used by scammers to steal personal information

3rd stimulus check, COVID vaccine appointments used by scammers to steal personal information

CHICAGO (WLS) — A new wave of costly scams is preying on people’s twin obsessions of the moment: getting the COVID-19 vaccine and getting their third stimulus check. “The threat actors are using COVID-19 because it’s this ambient anxiety that everyone has; they are worried about it, thinking about it, and so the threat actors are using that to get people to take an action,” said Sherrod DeGrippo, Proofpoint cybersecurity expert. Those actions include clicking…

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