It’s called the “Hitman Scam.” It’s an email that starts by saying someone you call your friend wants you dead, and it doesn’t stop there. The email continues, threatening your life if you don’t send them thousands of dollars.
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With the invention of email, scam artists realized that by addressing items to JoeUser@domain.com, it would eventually end up in Joe User’s inbox. This inbox is a place that Joe User expects to find relevant information and pays a lot …
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Combine this with the fear of many (69%) that they’ll be the victim of an email scam, and the fact that half of those don’t know how to identify a potentially dangerous email, and the fact that they’re often told not to trust …
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The Bait: Con artists claim to be officials, businesspeople, or the surviving spouses of former government honchos in Nigeria or another country whose money is somehow tied up for a limited time. They offer to transfer lots of money …
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There has been a long-running email scam, sometimes called the Nigerian Scam or the 419 scam. Basically, it requests that the receiver send money as part of a plan to free a large sum of money that’s been held in an account in a bank in …
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Yahoo has filed a lawsuit against an unknown group individuals, loosely called the “Yahoo Lottery Spammers,” for using the company’s name in an email scam that sought victim’s personal information and extorted money from purported …
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Posted by Thoughtful on 5/27/2008, 7:50 pm; 3 responses, latest posted 5/27/2008, 8:15 pm.
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