One of the advantages of following us on Twitter is that you get our #Sillyspam posts. In their efforts to confound mail filters, spammers often need to perform all sorts of language acrobatics. We usually feel compelled to add a comment to these amusing bits of email – and we summarize our favorites every 3 [...]
Nigeria and email schemes…419 scams and inboxes…these things just go hand-in-hand. After so many variations of the same old tricks, today’s schemers find that people are becoming a little more protective of their assets…assets that may have begun to dwindle due to the global financial crisis.
Commtouch partner, Cyberoam, recently reported on an intricate conference and [...]
What else can be said about those pesky Nigerian scam emails (commonly known as the “419 fraud”) and notifications of winning large amounts of money that hasn’t already been said?
It isn’t new that scammers use current events, news and upcoming attractions to make their campaigns seem authentic and convincing. While doing some research on 419 [...]
We’re all familiar with those 419 schemes – you get an email claiming that you’ve won $2,000,000 or that someone found a bank account that belonged to your uncle’s cousin’s step-sister’s nephew’s neice and that you are listed as the beneficiary. All you have to do to claim the money is send your bank account [...]
A new trick has emerged, with a 419 scam (those guys who try to woo you with free money, but really end up stealing your money) promoted through a photo sharing site – in this case Kodak EasyShare Gallery. It’s an easy way for these scammers to send email without being blocked, since blocking all [...]
