DocuSign Scams Used To Extort Companies

DocuSign is no different, and it’s been happening for years.

If you’ve ever worked in an office, you most likely know what DocuSign is. And since you know what DocuSign is, you most likely won’t check twice to see what a valid DocuSign link looks like.

And that’s how these scams work.

For those who don’t know DocuSign, it’s simply an online document software that allows people to send over documents to be electronically signed.

However, the important part lies in how you actually receive the document. If you receive it from a link, that’s when your guard should be up.

Scammers make you click links through a regular email. But not any regular link, a forged DocuSign link with a forged DocuSign template. But it’s look quite normal.

So you click it. And no red flags arise.

You give your name, number, address, maybe even your personal information because what the hell, it’s a office document your boss is asking you to sign.

Lo and behold, a couple days later, someone messages you and actively blackmails you because they have all your information. Or even better, they’ll impersonate you if you’re a high ranking employee and attempt to extort other people and forge your signature for financial gain.

Unnerving, right?

So how does it work? Well, someone will buy a DocuSign template (just a simple document layout to be signed) and all they have to do is create a link, send it to people in a company, and poof; hope they reel someone in.

And these aren’t third-party, rundown templates too. They’re legit looking templates that are so good, you won’t bat an eye if you see them.

At this point, we should honestly just go back to pigeons. And let’s hope that they still find a way to phish with them somehow too…