 Mass-Spammed
Lottery Email Uses BMW to Dupe Recipients - 30/10/2006 |
IT security experts
have warned of a new series of widely-distributed email campaigns that
claim that the recipient has won a brand new BMW 5 series car and 950,000
EUR all in an attempt to steal confidential information and money.
Recipients are advised
to contact the claims department via the bogus corporate address, email
address and telephone number provided to enhance the legitimacy of the
message.
Researchers at Sophos
believe the emails to be a variant of the commonly-encountered "Letter
from Nigeria" scams, also known as 419 Advanced Fee Fraud, that fool
innocent users into believing that large amounts of money will be
transferred into their bank accounts, but are really designed to steal
bank account information or demand a "handling fee" for the money
transfer.
Carole Theriault senior security
consultant at Sophos says, "few people would say no to a free BMW, or a
huge wad of cash for that matter, which is precisely why these lottery
scams are proving so successful…There's little that BMW can do to prevent
its name being used in this manner, and email users that take the bait
risk handing over their personal details to fraudsters."
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Source: Sophos
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