Similar to a magazine's editorial calendar, criminal hackers have a "scam calendar" which focuses on events exactly like the online shopping season. They have campaigns planned and ready to roll starting TODAY for the rest of the month.

These malware campaigns do not discriminate between the home and the office. Roughly a billion of these criminal emails are sent each day. So, I strongly recommend you send this to your users today. Feel free to edit any way you like:

"Scammers are preying on people that have just made a lot of online purchases on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There are several scam campaigns being sent right now.

1. Be on the lookout for "Shipping Problem" emails from from FedEx, UPS or the US Mail, where the email claims they tried to deliver a package from (for instance Apple Computer) but could not deliver due to an incomplete address. "Please click on the link to correct the address and you will get your package." If you do, your computer is likely to get infected with malware. Warn everyone in the family, especially teenagers.

2. Watch out for alerts via a TEXT to your smartphone that "confirm delivery" from FedEx, UPS or the US Mail, and then asks you for some personal information. Don't enter anything.

3. And to reiterate a warning we sent out a few weeks ago, there is a fake refund scam going on that could come from a big retailer. It claims there was a "wrong transaction" and wants you to "click for refund" but instead, your device will be infected with malware.

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Especially in these times, Think Before You Click!"

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