The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warns about ongoing scam campaigns that make use of the current Coronavirus global scale health crisis to bait potential targets from the United States via phishing emails, text messages, and social media.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on January 30, 2020, that the new 2019 novel Coronavirus (also known as 2019-nCOV and Wuhan coronavirus) outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern.
The next day, the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar also declared it a “public health emergency for the entire United States.”
Source - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ftc-warns-of-ongoing-scams-using-coronavirus-bait/
