Security News > 2021 > April > MacKenzie Scott Grant scam more widespread than initially thought
A massive phishing campaign reaching tens of thousands of inboxes impersonated the MacKenzie Bezos-Scott grant foundation promising financial benefits to recipients in exchange of a processing fee.
Unlike that version of the scam this campaign benefited by wide distribution and took advantage of the charitable acts last year from author MacKenzie Scott, once married to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Emails impersonating the MacKenzie Bezos-Scott foundation continue to poor in, according to email security platform Ironscales, who says that fraudulent messages reached at least 190,000 mailboxes.
The message purports to be from the charity organization saying that the recipient has been selected to receive a grant.
Even legitimate messages may contain mistakes or be sufficiently non-descript to raise suspicions.
The organization received a MacKenzie Bezos-Scott grant but Sander's first though was that it was a scam.