Security News > 2020 > April > Think before filling in that convenient flight refund form with all your delicious details – there's a scam going about

Email security biz Mimecast has warned of a flight refund scam doing the rounds amid a general uptick in coronavirus-related online crime.

It works by offering a fake flight refund form via email.

Mimecast told The Register it had picked up some of the scam emails from its routine monitoring.

"Because there's so much talk in the media about flight cancellations and refunds, criminals have switched those kind of tactics to phishing emails," Kiri Addison, Mimecast head data scientist for threat intelligence & overwatch, told us.

Topical email scams are a persistent threat, and the con artists behind them broadly follow current affairs and news trends in the hope of tricking innocents into parting with valuable personal data that can be abused to extract money.

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