Fraud & Compliance
Phishing
A phishing scam attempting to steal credentials or payment details.
Phishing is a scam that impersonates a trusted party — a platform, network, payment provider, or colleague — to steal credentials, session tokens, or payment details. It arrives as fake login pages, spoofed support emails, malicious Telegram bots, or counterfeit ad-platform notifications. Once credentials are captured, attackers drain ad account balances, hijack tracker and network accounts, or redirect affiliate payouts to their own wallets.
Media buyers are prime targets because they hold funded ad accounts and network balances: fake 'Meta policy violation' emails and fake affiliate-network login pages are the standard lures, and hijacked agency accounts get resold or drained within hours. Teams defend with hardware keys or app-based 2FA on every platform, separate browser profiles per asset, and a hard rule that no link from email or Telegram DMs gets clicked without verifying the domain.
In buyer speech
“That 'Meta ads restriction' email is phishing — the domain is meta-business-support.co, don't log in anywhere, and rotate your BM password now.”