Government releases top email scam threats

The government's cyber-security experts have revealed the top email phishing threats from fraudsters over the past two months.

In its latest report, the Cyber Security Centre for the Isle of Man says 1,158 suspicious emails were reported to it in September and October.

It says the most common messages were about Manx Telecom's manx.net email service, with banking, competitions, malware and PayPal making up the top five.

And it adds 965 emails had malicious links in them.

You can read the full report here.