/technology/ en /technology/news/list/2025/11/06/the-risk-of-fake-captchas We’ve all seen CAPTCHA prompts before, the ones asking you to click on images with traffic lights or type some squiggly letters to prove you’re human. But a sneaky scam is making the rounds again, these are fake CAPTCHA pages that trick you into running malicious code on your device. It’s part of a social engineering tactic known as ClickFix.   How does it work? You might visit a website (often from a phishing email or pop-up) and see what looks like a normal CAPTCHA, but after clicking the checkbox, it requests a few extra steps, for example:  November 06 2025 Wayne Fryer /technology/news/list/2025/11/06/the-risk-of-fake-captchas /technology/news/list/2020/06/05/beware-of-covid-19-phishing Scammers regularly seek to capitalise on topical issues to trap people into responding to fake emails, text messages and ads. June 05 2020 Eva O'Driscoll /technology/news/list/2020/06/05/beware-of-covid-19-phishing