Hackers With New Phishing Technique | PDF Form | FINANCE AWARD9

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I must be the luckiest person alive. In the past three days I found out I won $1,500,000.00(ONE Million, Five Hundred Thousand USD) in an e-mail lottery held by the MICROSOFT WINDOWS Company. Wow! What did I do to receive all these riches?

The sad truth is there are actually people who fall for these schemes. For the promise of a quick buck (or million USD as the case may be) people will turn over their bank account numbers, wire money in the hopes of getting more back, or give other information that could lead to identity theft.

These lottery and sweepstakes schemes have gone on long before the internet, with one of the oldest being the phony sweepstakes which required an entrance fee to claim your prize, which amounted to more than the “prize” was worth. Another variation of that scheme was requiring the potential “winner” to call a certain number to find out if he or she was a winner. The phone call cost the potential “winner” a certain amount per minute with an unusually-long wait time on hold. The real winner was the scamming company which made money off the phone calls.

Today’s thieves have a wide choice of scam-delivery mechanisms, including in person, the mail, phone and internet. However, the same holds true no matter how the scam is delivered: if it sounds too good to be true, it is.
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    Hackers,  Scams,  Phishing,  Lottery

3 comments // Hackers With New Phishing Technique | PDF Form | FINANCE AWARD9

  • CalgarC
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      CalgarC  

    • lol i used to reply to my spam and phishing email, telling them to "f**k off" then i would take their ip address and track where the servers location was.

    • 7 months ago
  • annanta
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      annanta  
    • CalgarC:

      one of my friend thought he really won the lottery, he even made a call to USA from India to conform. He wrote many mails and as well received reply but at last they told him to deposit some amount as tax at that point he came to me. lol :)

    • 7 months ago
  • CalgarC

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